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Auteur(s) : Brooke, John L. (1953-....)
Titre(s) : "There is a North" [Texte imprimé] : fugitive slaves, political crisis, and cultural transformation in the coming of the Civil War / John L. Brooke
Publication : Amherst (Mass.) : University of Massachusetts Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-404 p.-[16] f. de pl.) : ill., cartes ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. p. 319-383. Index
"How does political change take hold? In the 1850s, politicians and abolitionists
despaired, complaining that the 'North, the poor timid, mercenary, driveling North'
offered no forceful opposition to the power of the slaveholding South. And yet, as
John L. Brooke proves, the North did change. Inspired by brave fugitives who escaped
slavery and the cultural craze that was Uncle Tom's Cabin, the North rose up to battle
slavery, ultimately waging the bloody Civil War. While Lincoln's alleged quip about
the little woman who started the big war has been oft-repeated, scholars have not
fully explained the dynamics between politics and culture in the decades leading up
to 1861. Rather than simply viewing the events of the 1850s through the lens of party
politics, 'There Is a North' is the first book to explore how cultural action -- including
minstrelsy, theater, and popular literature -- transformed public opinion and political
structures. Taking the North's rallying cry as his title, Brooke shows how the course
of history was forever changed"
Sujet(s) : Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's cabin -- Influence
Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- États-Unis (nord-est) -- 19e siècle
Esclavage -- Opinion publique -- États-Unis (nord-est) -- 19e siècle
Politique et culture -- États-Unis (nord-est) -- 19e siècle
États-Unis -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Origines
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.711 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1861-1865 - Causes de la Guerre de Sécession
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781625344465 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47120195t
Notice n° :
FRBNF47120195
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Table des matières : Introduction: confluence, Creolization, liminal crisis, and the antislavery north
-- ; Structures challenged : the rise of abolitionism and antislavery -- ; Structure
defended : the Compromise of 1850 -- ; Liminality erupting in the first crisis : fugitives
and the northern public -- ; Creative liminality : writing and reading Uncle Tom's
Cabin -- ; Transforming culture : commercializing antislavery -- ; Guarantees violated
in the second crisis : the Kansas-Nebraska Act -- ; Restructuring coalescence : nativism
and antislavery politics -- ; Confirming and consolidating new structures : the rise
of the Republican Party -- ; Epilogue: Into the war.
