ePub Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South (Southern Biography) by Douglas Ambrose in History

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Divided Hearts explores the passionate political strife that raged in Britain as a result of the American Civil War. Moving beyond Mary Ellison's 1972 landmark regional study of Lancashire cotton workers' reactions; R. J. M. Blackett opens the subject to a new; wider transatlantic context of influence and undertakes a deftly researched and written sociological; intellectual; and political examination of who in Britain supported the Union; who the Confederacy; and why. The American Civil War had a profound effect on Britain's political culture; no other event during that period -- not in Poland; Hungary; Italy; or British colonies -- compared. Blackett argues that the traditional historiographical assessments of British partisanship along class and economic lines must be reevaluated in light of the nature and changing contours of transatlantic abolitionist connections; the ways in which nationalism framed the debate; and the effect that race -- among other issues -- exerted over the British public's perception of conditions in America. Divided Hearts presents a compelling and innovative thesis; one sure to engage scholars in many fields of history.