Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860

Explores the South's paradoxical devotion to liberty and the practice of slaveryThe recipient of high praise--and considerable...
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Author: William J. Cooper
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Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860 by Cooper, William J.

Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860

€47,86

Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860

€47,86
Author: William J. Cooper
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Explores the South's paradoxical devotion to liberty and the practice of slavery

The recipient of high praise--and considerable debate for its provocative thesis--William J. Cooper, Jr.'s sweeping survey of antebellum southern politics returns to print for classroom and general use with this new paperback volume. In Liberty and Slavery Cooper contends that southerners defined their notions of liberty in terms of its opposite--slavery. He suggests that a jealous guardianship of the peculiar institution unified white southerners of differing economic, social, and religious standing and grounded their debates on nationalism and sectionalism, agriculture and manufacturing, territorial expansion and Western settlement. Cooper assesses how the South's devotion to liberty shaped its response to major legislation, judicial decisions, and military actions, and how abolitionism, in the eyes of white southerners, threatened the destruction of local control and the death of liberty.



Author: William J. Cooper
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 10/31/2000
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9781570033872


Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2001 pg. 98 - Recommended/Special Interest

About the Author

William J. Cooper, Jr., is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University, where he has taught since 1968. He is the author of Jefferson Davis, American; The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856; and The Conservative Regime: South Carolina, 1877-1890 and coauthor of The American South: A History. Cooper also has edited three books, including Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand. Cooper lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.


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