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The Worst Passions of Human Nature - White Supremacy in the Civil War North (Hardcover)
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The Worst Passions of Human Nature - White Supremacy in the Civil War North (Hardcover)
Series: A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
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The American North's commitment to preventing a southern secession
rooted in slaveholding suggests a society united in its opposition
to slavery and racial inequality. The reality, however, was far
more complex and troubling. In his latest book, Paul Escott lays
bare the contrast between progress on emancipation and the
persistence of white supremacy in the Civil War North. Escott
analyzes northern politics, as well as the racial attitudes
revealed in the era's literature, to expose the nearly ubiquitous
racism that flourished in all of American society and culture.
Contradicting much recent scholarship, Escott argues that the
North's Democratic Party was consciously and avowedly "the white
man's party," as an extensive examination of Democratic newspapers,
as well as congressional debates and other speeches by Democratic
leaders, proves. The Republican Party, meanwhile, defended
emancipation as a war measure but did little to attack racism or
fight for equal rights. Most Republicans propagated a message that
emancipation would not disturb northern race relations or the
interests of northern white voters: freed slaves, it was felt,
would either leave the nation or remain in the South as subordinate
laborers. Escott's book uncovers the substantial and destructive
racism that lay beyond the South's borders. Despite emancipation
representing enormous progress, racism flourished in the North, and
assumptions of white supremacy remained powerful and nearly
ubiquitous throughout America.
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