Conflict and compromise : the political economy of slavery, emancipation, and the American Civil War /
In this book Professor Roger Ransom 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. Ransom argues that the system of capitalist slavery in the South not only "cause...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1989.
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