{"product_id":"to-save-us-all-from-mark-wahlgren-summers-9780813955278","title":"To Save Us All from Slavery's Power: Republican Alarms, Southern Terrors, and the Plunge Into Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dramatic reappraisal and retelling of the destruction of the American Union\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Save Us All from Slavery's Power\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel assessment of the culmination of the sectional crisis before the Civil War. It is a story of mutual misunderstanding, journalistic mendacity, and irreconcilable visions of the country's future. With threats of disunion and rebellion rising in a thunderous chorus from the South in 1860, how could Republicans not have believed them until it was too late?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Summers shows, Republicans in 1860 found it difficult to take the disunionist threat seriously because they knew that their party posed no imminent danger to slavery where it existed. But by then Americans were living in different political realities, and white Southerners could not see Republicans as anything less than an existential threat. \u003ci\u003eTo Save Us All from Slavery's Power\u003c\/i\u003e describes in dramatic detail how negative perceptions between the sections festered, and how the antagonism between them reached, and then went past, the breaking point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Wahlgren Summers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813955270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813955278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Mark Wahlgren Summers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801111572735,"sku":"9780813955278","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/to-save-us-all-from-mark-wahlgren-summers-9780813955278","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}