Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War

Forside
Oxford University Press, 2. okt. 1980 - 256 sider
Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period. The first section of this book deals with the causes of the sectional conflict; the second, with the antislavery movement; and a final group of essays treats land and labor after the war. Taken together, Foner's essays work towards reintegrating the social, political, and intellectual history of the nineteenth century.

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Introduction
3
Recent
15
Politics Ideology and the Origins
34
Abolitionism and the Labor Movement
57
Racial Attitudes of the New York
77
Reconstruction and the Crisis of Free
97
Thaddeus Stevens Confiscation
128
Class Ethnicity and Radicalism
150
Notes
201
Acknowledgments
241
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Side 41 - This agitation has produced one happy effect at least; it has compelled us of the South to look into the nature and character of this great institution, and to correct many false impressions that even we had entertained in relation to it. Many in the South...
Side 47 - It shows that the judge has no very vivid impression that the negro is a human ; and consequently has no idea that there can be any moral question in legislating about him. In his view, the question of whether a new country shall be slave or free, is a matter of as utter indifference, as it is whether his neighbor shall plant his farm with tobacco, or stock it with horned cattle.
Side 76 - That night a chariot passed her, While on the ground she lay ; The daughters of her master An evening visit pay ; Their tender hearts were sighing As negro wrongs were told, While the white slave was dying, Who gained their father's gold...
Side 62 - An attempt has been made — it is still making — we regret to say, with considerable success — to inflame the minds of our working classes against the more opulent, and to persuade them that they are contemned and oppressed by a wealthy aristocracy.
Side 46 - It is no answer to this argument to say that slavery is an evil, and hence should not be tolerated. You must allow the people to decide for themselves whether it is a good or an evil.
Side 186 - It is the Golden Age of which poets have sung and high-raised seers have told in metaphor! It is the glorious vision which has always haunted man with gleams of fitful splendor. It is what he saw whose eyes at Patmos were closed in a trance. It is the culmination of Christianity — the City of God on earth, with its walls of jasper and its gates of pearl! It is the reign of the Prince of Peace!
Side 203 - The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics," in David E. Apter, ed., Ideology and Discontent (New York: Free Press, 1964), pp.

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