Half Slave and Half Free, Revised Edition: The Roots of Civil War
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Half Slave and Half Free, Revised Edition: The Roots of Civil War
Author: Bruce Levine
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright: 1992
Pages: 336
Cover Price: $ 16.95
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Half Slave and Half Free is a succinct and persuasive treatment of the basic issues and social transformations that precipitated the Civil War. Now, in a revised edition that includes a new preface and afterword and a revised and expanded bibliographic essay, Bruce Levine's impressive work is brought completely up to date. Its argument is still compelling: that a popular basis for the Civil War developed out of the far-reaching and divisive changes in American life that came with the incomplete Revolution of 1776 changes that led to two very distinct social systems, one based on slavery, the other on free labor, which eventually made
sectional differences within the framework of the Union irreconcilable.
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