Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men - Hummel, Jeffrey
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This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. The chapters tell the story of the Civil War and discuss the issues raised in readable prose, each followed by a detailed bibliographical essay, looking at the different major works on the subject, with varying ideological viewpoints and conclusions. In his economic analysis of slavery, Professor Hummel takes a different view. While…mehr

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This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. The chapters tell the story of the Civil War and discuss the issues raised in readable prose, each followed by a detailed bibliographical essay, looking at the different major works on the subject, with varying ideological viewpoints and conclusions. In his economic analysis of slavery, Professor Hummel takes a different view. While some writers claim that slavery was unprofitable and harmful to the Southern economy, and others maintain it was profitable and efficient for the South, Hummel uses the economic concept of Deadweight Loss to show that slavery was both highly profitable for slave owners and harmful to Southern economic development. While highly critical of Confederate policy, Hummel argues that the war was fought to prevent secession, not to end slavery, and that preservation of the Union was not necessary to end slavery. Part of Hummel's argument is that the South crucially relied on the Northern states to return runaway slaves to their owners.
Autorenporträt
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel is Associate Professor of Economics at San Jose State University, where he teaches both economics and history. He lives in Walnut Creek, CA. John Majewski is Professor of History at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is author of Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) and A House Divided: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2000). He lives in Santa Barbara, CA.