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June, 2006
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Calculating the Value of the Union
Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War

By James L. Huston
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xvii, 394. Tables, illustrations, appendices, notes, sources, index. $45.00.)

James L. Huston has written a smart book explaining why the Civil War could not be avoided. Looking closely at speeches (especially in congressional debates) and at correspondence, Huston works with the actual words of the southern leaders who finally calculated that the union was less valuable to them than their slaves, and who, fearing that the union would someday in some way cost them their slaves, then assailed it in a war that cost them those slaves. . . .
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