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| Preface | |
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| Prologue: Yancey's Rage | |
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| Better Economic Times Generate Worse Democratic Dilemmas | |
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| Democracy and Despotism, 1776- 1854: Road, Volume I, Revisited | |
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| Economic Bonanza, 1850-1860 | |
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| The Climactic Ideological Frustrations | |
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| James Henry Hammond and the Unsolvable Proslavery Puzzle | |
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| The Three Imperfect Solutions | |
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| The Puzzling Future and the Infuriating Scapegoats | |
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| The Climactic Political Frustrations | |
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| Bleeding Kansas and Bloody Summer | |
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| The Scattering of the Ex-Whigs | |
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| James Buchanan's Precarious Election | |
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| The President-Elect as the Dred Scotts' Judge | |
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| The Climactic Kansas Crisis | |
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| Caribbean Delusions | |
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| Reopening the African Slave Trade | |
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| Reenslaving Free Blacks | |
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| John Brown and Three Other Men Coincidentally Named John | |
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| John Brown and Violent Invasion | |
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| John G. Fee and Religious Invasion | |
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| John Underwood and Economic Invasion | |
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| John Clark and Political Invasion | |
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| The Election of 8601 | |
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| Yancey's Lethal Abstraction | |
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| The Democracy's Charleston Convention | |
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| The Democracy's Baltimore Convention | |
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| Suspicious Southerners and Lincoln's Election | |
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| South Carolina Dares | |
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| The State's Rights Justification | |
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| The Motivation | |
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| The Tactics and Tacticians | |
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| The Triumph; Coda: Did the Coincidence Change History? | |
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| Lower South Landslide, Upper South Stalemate | |
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| Alexander Stephen's Fleeting Moment; Coda: Did Stephens's and Hammond's Personalities Change History? | |
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| Southwestern Separatists' Tactics and Messages | |
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| Compromise Rejected | |
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| Military Explosions | |
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| Snowball Rolling | |
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| Upper South Stalemate | |
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| Stalemate-and the south-shattered; Coda: How Did Slavery Cause the Civil War? | |
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| Abbreviations Used in Notes | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |