{"product_id":"liberty-and-slavery-william-j-cooper-9781570033872","title":"Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William J. Cooper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570033870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570033872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2001 pg. 98 - Recommended\/Special Interest","brand":"William J. Cooper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939689300223,"sku":"9781570033872","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_19b19c2e-1b34-47c7-9658-4a3ab8fdc17e.jpg?v=1681442939","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/liberty-and-slavery-william-j-cooper-9781570033872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}