{"product_id":"liberty-and-slavery-southern-politics-to-1860-paperback","title":"Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam J. Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the South's paradoxical devotion to liberty and the practice of slavery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recipient of high praise--and considerable debate for its provocative thesis--William J. Cooper, Jr.'s sweeping survey of antebellum southern politics returns to print for classroom and general use with this new paperback volume. In\u003ci\u003e Liberty and Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e Cooper contends that southerners defined their notions of liberty in terms of its opposite--slavery. He suggests that a jealous guardianship of the peculiar institution unified white southerners of differing economic, social, and religious standing and grounded their debates on nationalism and sectionalism, agriculture and manufacturing, territorial expansion and Western settlement. Cooper assesses how the South's devotion to liberty shaped its response to major legislation, judicial decisions, and military actions, and how abolitionism, in the eyes of white southerners, threatened the destruction of local control and the death of liberty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam J. Cooper, Jr., \u003c\/b\u003e is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University, where he has taught since 1968. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eJefferson Davis, American; The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828-1856;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Conservative Regime: South Carolina, 1877-1890\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of\u003ci\u003e The American South: A History.\u003c\/i\u003e Cooper also has edited three books, including \u003ci\u003eWriting the Civil War: The Quest to Understand.\u003c\/i\u003e Cooper lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51800747770144,"sku":"9781570033872","price":42.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2819217be58a695f73f8f995dee4740a.webp?v=1780837635","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/liberty-and-slavery-southern-politics-to-1860-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}