The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War by Freehling, William W. [Edt.] - 1994

New York: Oxford University Press, 1994 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. x (iii), 321 pp, preface, acknowledgments, 1. the Editorial Revolution, Virginia, and the Coming of the Civil War: A Review Essay; 2. The Founding Fathers, Conditional Antislavery, and Nonradicalism of the American Revolution; 3. Denmark Vesey's Antipaternalistic Reality; 4. Defective Paternalism: James Henley Thornwell's Mysterious Antislavery Moment; 5. Beyond Racial Limits: Paternalism over Whites in the Thought of Calhoun and Fitzhugh; 6. Unlimited Paternalism's Problems: The Transforming Moment on My Road Toward Understanding Disunion; 7. "Absurd" Issues and the Causes of the Civil War: Colonization as a Test Case; 8. The Comples Career of Slaveholder Expansionism; 9. The Divided South, Democracy's Limitations, and the Causes of the Peculiarly North American Civil War; 10. The Divided South, the Causes of Confederate Defeat, and the Reingegration of Narrative; 11. Toward a Newer Political --- and a Reintegrated Multicultural History; notes, index. First Edition, 1994. "This collection of essays deals with slavery in the USA, and how the South in particular responded to the problem. It discusses such subjects as the Constitution and slavery, slave rebellion (the Denmark Vesey Uprising), attempts to banish all blacks to Africa, attempts to expand slavery in the United States and overseas, and the division in the southern states as to whether or not to secede from the Union." Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine..