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The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (Road to Disunion Vol. 1)
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Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the antebellum South was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, as Northern egalitarianism infiltrated border states already bitterly divided on key issues. It was the world of Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson, and also of Gullah Jack, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass.
Now, in the first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunion, historian William Freehling offers a sweeping political and social history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic events leading to secession are here: the Missouri Compromise, the Nullification Controversy, the Gag Rule, the Annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Vivid accounts of each crisis reveal the surprising extent to which slavery influenced national politics before 1850 and provide important reinterpretations of American republicanism, Jeffersonian states' rights, Jacksonian democracy, and the causes of the American Civil War.
Freehling's brilliant historical insights illustrate a work of rich social observation. In the cities of the Antebellum South, in the big house of a typical plantation, we feel anew the tensions between the slaveowner and his family, poor whites and planters, the Old and New Souths, and most powerfully between slave and master. Freehling has evoked the Old South in all its color, cruelty, and diversity. It is a memorable portrait, certain to be a key analysis of this crucial era in American history.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.711
EAN: 9780195072594
ISBN: 0195072596
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 656
Publication Date: 1991-12-05
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
SIMILAR ITEMS:
• The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant 1854-1861
• Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836
• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)
• The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
• Political Crisis of the 1850s
CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
An Excellent Examination of the Antebellum South -
Dr. Freehling, in this first of two excellent works on the long course of action that led to disunion and the dissolution of slavery in the United States shows great analysis of controversies that demonstrated division within the south, within political parties, within southerners themselves and ultimately hints at the division to come (in Volume 2, a similarly masterful work). A skillful use and analysis of contemporary debates and even personal correspondence makes this a definitive work on the long slide of the fragile Union towards civil war over the one non-negociable issue it faced during its early years. This book is highly recommended, with its sibling, for the reader who wishes to understand (even if they disagree with) the southern view during the years before the Civil War.
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4.5 Stars -
This is a great book, but I sometimes felt it was a bit repetitive, hence it is not quite a 5-Star read. Freehling's style is easy on the eyes and brain and the entire narrative is fascinating. His search for "a south" was intriguing.
If you like American History this is a must read.
Turgid writing style -
Succeeds only in making the lead-up to the Civil War unreadable. The author has an aversion to using commas in his writing.
Professor's Prose Style Makes "Road" a Difficult Journey -
I have read both volumes of Professor Freehling's "Road to Disunion" and consider his work to be of the highest scholarship, impeccably researched, and very informative. Unfortunately, Professor Freehling's writing style seems to indicate that his work was prepared more for the perusal of his fellow Ph.D's than for the reading public. It is lamentable for those having an interest in this period of our history that he did not take a cue from writers and historians of this era such as Shelby Foote, Douglas Southall Freeman, Carl Sandburg, Allan Nevins, and Bruce Catton whose works are highly informative but at the same time very readable, flowing, actually entertaining.
One has to actually experience Professor Freehling's sentences and paragraphs to appreciate the difficulty of grasping some of them. He seems never to have met a suffix--and few prefixes--which he did not like. Social and political factions, groups, and sub-groups are inevitably named and labelled resulting in an exponential proliferation of nouns such as Secessionists, Unionists, Dis-unionists, Separatists, Cooperationists, Abolitionists, Borderites, Paternalists, Egalitarianists, Nativists, ex-Whigs, anti-slavery Democrats, Calhounism, Van Burenites, etc., ad infinitum. More than a few casual readers will likely find that a glossary, however sophomoric it might seem to Professor Freehling, would be helpful. I found myself reading many sentences two, three, even four times before feeling satisfied that I had grasped the intended meaning. Several entire paragraphs, after being subjected to similar scrutiny, were simply abandoned as I moved on through the work, resigned that, if I should ever be able to digest them, it simply would not be worth the effort.
On a substantive note, Professor Freehling, especially in Volume II, appears to conclude that the proponents of slavery, in their efforts to defend and protect their "peculiar institution" infringed and trampled upon the "Republicanism" of other whites, and tended thereby even to enslave such whites. He seems to offer this conclusion as an explanation for the fervor which opponents of slavery brought to the struggle against it. The primary example offered of such infringement of "Republican" rights is the fact that for a number of years, the Democratic Party was controlled by a minority centered in the lower south, and that through the Democratic Party, then the major party in the nation, this southern minority in effect exercised control over a nationwide majority. Other more concrete examples of infringement of "rights" were southern efforts to "gag" and censor abolitionist communication designed to agitate and incite resistance to slavery in the south, and actual violence offered to those inclined to go in person among slaves and non-slaveholding whites for such purposes. Southerners felt justified in such action by the basic necessity of self-preservation due to the omnipresent threat of slave violence, a threat which would be exacerbated if violent tendencies should be inflamed by agitation.
It is unimaginable to me that any Yankee soldier--indeed anyone opposed to the South and/or slavery--in the Civil War ever said or thought that his (or her) "Republicanism" was threatened by the South or that any white person was in danger of enslavement by the South. Even if Professor Freehling's conclusion is considered as merely an articulation of some unspoken gutteral response to slaveholders, what purpose is served by such a contrived articulation? Is it the result of academic pressure to forever derive and construct some new insight or theory upon one of the most studied and exposed eras of history? If the people who lived in that era did not articulate their motivation in such terms, and if nobody else in today's society views the matter in such terms, what is the value of expounding upon history in such contrived fashion?
My conclusion is that Professor Freehling's somewhat strained efforts to bring new insights to an old story have rendered his telling of the story unnecessarily difficult to follow. I do recommend reading his work, but I would not recommend that the casual reader plunge into it without some prior familiarization with the history of the era. Potter's "The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861" may be considered one of the leading works on the subject prior to the publication of "Road to Disunion", and the casual reader might be well-advised to take them in chronological order.
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Like Shredded Wheat - dry but nourishing -
Due to the author's difficult style (which I would describe as awkward rather than boring) it took me a couple of years to slog through this book. I found myself constantly setting it aside to read more interesting works. Ultimately, I disciplined myself to finally finish it, and I'm glad I did. Despite Mr. Freehling's dense prose, there's a lot of very insightful analysis here, for anyone willing to overlook the author's stylistic shortcomings.
The first part of the book takes the reader on a tour of the antebellum South, and exposes the many regional differences that made the South difficult to unite. Freehling also describes the attitudes of the Southern slave-holding gentility. "Massa" could be a tyrant with the "darkies", but lenient and overly-indulgent with his own family. He wanted to be feudal lord over all, yet still clung to some of the ideals of Jacksonian democracy. At times, Freehling loses his objectivity and wears his anti-Southern bias on his sleeve, but overall his analysis rings true.
The remainder of the book explores the various controversies, such as the Gag Rule, the Nullification Crisis, the Annexation of Texas, the Wilmot Proviso, and other events that threatened to shatter the fragile Union. One surprising omission from this list is New England's threat to secede during the War of 1812. Although it had nothing to do with slavery and the South, it certainly falls under the topic of disunion. I was disappointed that Freehling didn't even mention it.
"The Road to Disunion" is not a light and easy read by any stretch, but it's packed with information. I would recommend it for any serious student of the Civil War and its causes.
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