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Book Review

Canada and the United States

James L. Huston. Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. (Civil War America.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2003. Pp. xvii, 394. $45.00.

James L. Huston's book offers a sweeping interpretation of U.S. history during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that roots the causes of the Civil War in differing conceptions of property among northerners and southerners. Whereas southern slaveholders claimed the sanctity of property in enslaved humans, citizens in states north of the Mason and Dixon Line increasingly found such property contradictory to their ideal of "free village labor" (p. xiv). Five chapters survey popular political ideology with respect to property rights from the colonial period to the eve of the Civil War. These chapters treat southern defensiveness regarding slave property, the growth of antislavery and free-labor ideology in the North, and the escalating debate over the constitutionality of slavery expansion into the western territories. Two long chapters examine the political realignment of the 1850s.

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