Disunion The Coming of the American Civil War 1789 1859 1st Edition by Elizabeth R Varon ISBN 0807832324 9780807832325

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ISBN 10: 0807832324

ISBN 13: 9780807832325 

Author: Elizabeth R. Varon

In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As Elizabeth Varon shows, “disunion” connoted the dissolution of the republic — the failure of the founders’ effort to establish a stable and lasting representative government. For many Americans in both the North and the South, disunion was a nightmare, a cataclysm that would plunge the nation into the kind of fear and misery that seemed to pervade the rest of the world. For many others, however, disunion was seen as the main instrument by which they could achieve their partisan and sectional goals. Varon blends political history with intellectual, cultural, and gender history to examine the ongoing debates over disunion that long preceded the secession crisis of 1860–61.

Table of contents:

Part I 1789-1836

1. The Language of Terrifying Prophecy: Disunion Debates in the Early Republic
2. We Claim Our Rights: The Advent of Abolitionism
3. Ruinous Tendencies: The Anti-Abolition Backlash

Part II 1837-1850

4. The Idea Will Become Familiar: Disunion in the Era of Mass Party Politics
5. Oh for a Man Who Is a Man: Debating Slavery’s Expansion

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