At the Precipice: Americans North and South During the Secession Crisis

by Shearer Davis Bowman

Book Overview

Why did eleven slave states secede from the Union in 1860-61? Why did the eighteen free states loyal to the Union deny the legitimacy of secession, and take concrete steps after Fort Sumter to subdue what President Abraham Lincoln deemed treasonous rebellion?

At the Precipice seeks to answer these and related questions by focusing on the different ways in which Americans, North and South, black and white, understood their interests,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807833924
• ISBN13: 9780807833926
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"