Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
(Part of the Civil War America Series)
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While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James Huston integrates economic, social, and political history to argue that the issue of property rights as it pertained to slavery was at the center...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469629100
ISBN13:9781469629100
Release Date:March 2016
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:416 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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