Calculating the value of the Union : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War

Publication Data

• Title Calculating the value of the Union : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War
• Author James L. Huston
• Publisher University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date 2003
• Publication location Chapel Hill, N.C.
• Language English

Contents

Slavery, property rights, and the American Revolution
The origins of slaveholder aggressiveness
Free labor and the competition of slaves
The antislavery debate over property rights
The constitutionality of slavery prohibition in the territories
The politics of Southern upheaval, 1846-1853
The Northern realignment, 1854-1860.

Topics

• Slavery :: Economic aspects :: United States :: History
• Right of property :: United States :: History
• United States :: History :: Civil War, 1861-1865 :: Causes
• United States :: History :: Civil War, 1861-1865 :: Economic aspects
• United States

Calculating the value of the Union : slavery, property rights, and the economic origins of the Civil War by James L. Huston. ISBN 0807828041. Published by University of North Carolina Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.