Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War

Levine, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0374523096 / ISBN 13: 9780374523091

Published by Hill and Wang, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War
• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374523096
• ISBN 13: 9780374523091
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Half Slave and Half Free is a powerful treatment of the basic issues and social transformations that precipitated the Civil War. In a succinct, persuasive narrative, Bruce Levine succeeds in showing how a popular basis for the Civil War developed out of the far-reaching and divisive changes in American life after the incomplete Revolution of 1776--changes that stemmed from the development of two very distinct social systems, one based on slavery, the other on free labor, which eventually made sectional differences within the framework of the Union irreconcilable.

About the Author

Bruce Levine, professor of American history at the University of Cincinnati, is the author of The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War.