Disunion!
Political aspects of Rhetoric
United states, politics and government, 1783-1865
Antislavery movements, united states
Slavery, united states, history
Causes
Antislavery movements
United States Civil War, 1861-1865
Rhetoric
Slavery
Political aspects
Sources
Nonfiction
United States
Politics and government
History
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten or discredit their opponents. According to Elizabeth Varon, "disunion" was a startling and provocative keyword in Americans' political vocabulary: it connoted the failure of …
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