Conflict and Compromise The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation and the American Civil War

Name: Conflict and Compromise The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation and the American Civil War
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ISBN: 9780521311670

ISBN-10: 0521311675

ISBN-13: 9780521311670

Edition: 1989

Authors: Roger L. Ransom

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No series of events had a more dramatic impact on the course of American history than the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves. This book examines the economic and political factors that led to the attempt by Southerners to dissolve the Union in 1860 and the equally determined effort of Northerners to preserve it. A central thesis of the book is that slavery not only "caused" the Civil War by producing tensions that could not be resolved by compromise; the slave system also played a crucial role in the outcome of the war by crippling the Southern war effort at the same time that emancipation became a unifying cause for the North. The author looks at a century of sectional…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/29/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Roger L. Ransom is professor of history and economics at the University of California, Riverside. He is co-author of the groundbreaking work One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.



List of tables and illustrations


Preface



Historical puzzles



Slavery and freedom



The economics of slavery



The politics of slavery



The politics of compromise



Slavery and the war



The impact of emancipation



After the war


Bibliography


Index