"There Is a North" : Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War /
"How does political change take hold? In the 1850s, politicians and abolitionists despaired, complaining that the 'North, the poor timid, mercenary, driveling North' offered no forceful opposition to the power of the slaveholding South. And yet, as John L. Brooke proves, the North did...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press
[2019]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5627631 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: confluence, Creolization, liminal crisis, and the antislavery north
- Structures challenged : the rise of abolitionism and antislavery
- Structure defended : the Compromise of 1850
- Liminality erupting in the first crisis : fugitives and the northern public
- Creative liminality : writing and reading Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Transforming culture : commercializing antislavery
- Guarantees violated in the second crisis : the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Restructuring coalescence : nativism and antislavery politics
- Confirming and consolidating new structures : the rise of the Republican Party
- Epilogue: Into the war.