The Road to Disunion · Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 by Freehling, William W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Deidication Contents Maps Illustrations Preface Prologue: Yancey's Rage PART I BETTER ECONOMIC TIMES GENERATE WORSE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMAS

PART II THE CLIMACTIC IDEOLOGICAL FRUSTRATIONS

3 James Henry Hammond and the Unsolvable Proslavery Puzzle 4 The Three Imperfect Solutions 5 The Puzzling Future and the Infuriating Scapegoats

PART III THE CLIMACTIC POLITICAL FRUSTRATIONS

6 Bleeding Kansas and Bloody Sumner 7 The Scattering of the Ex-Whigs 8 James Buchanan's Precarious Election 9 The President-Elect as the Dred Scotts' Judge 10 The Climactic Kansas Crisis 11 Caribbean Delusions 12 Reopening the African Slave Trade 13 Reenslaving Free Blacks

PART IV JOHN BROWN, AND THREE OTHER MEN COINCIDENTALLY NAMED JOHN

14 John Brown and Violent Invasion 15 John G. Fee and Religious Invasion 16 John Underwood and Economic Invasion 17 John Clark and Political Invasion

PART V THE ELECTION OF 1860

18 Yancey's Lethal Abstraction 19 The Democracy's Charleston Convention 20 The Democracy's Baltimore Convention 21 Suspicious Southerners and Lincoln's Election

PART VI SOUTH CAROLINA DARES

22 The State's Rights Justification 23 The Motivation 24 The Tactics and the Tacticians 25 The Triumph

PART VII LOWER SOUTH LANDSLIDE, UPPER SOUTH STALEMATE

26 Alexander Stephens's Fleeting Moment 27 Southwestern Separatists' Tactics and Messages 28 Compromise Rejected 29 Military Explosions 30 Snowball Rolling 31 Upper South Stalemate 32 Stalemate—and the South—Shattered

Abbreviations Used in Notes (Slightly different than in Volume 1) Notes Index