Origins of Southern Radicalism

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Origins of Southern Radicalism is written by Lacy K. Ford and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195069617 (ISBN 10) and 9780195069617 (ISBN 13).

In the sixty years before the American Civil War, the South Carolina Upcountry evolved from an isolated subsistence region that served as a stronghold of Jeffersonian Republicanism into a mature cotton-producing region with a burgeoning commercial sector that served as a hotbed of Southern radicalism. This groundbreaking study examines this startling evolution, tracing the growth, logic, and strategy of pro-slavery radicalism and the circumstances and values of white society and politics to analyze why the white majority of the Old South ultimately supported the secession movement that led to bloody civil war.