The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War

by Edward Bartlett Rugemer

Book Overview

"A most persuasive work that repositions the American debates over emancipation where they clearly belong, in a broader Anglo-Atlantic context." -- Reviews in History

While many historians look to internal conflict alone to explain the onset of the American Civil War, in The Problem of Emancipation, Edward Bartlett Rugemer places the origins of the war in a transatlantic context. Addressing a huge gap in the historiography of the antebellum...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807135593
• ISBN13: 9780807135594
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"