Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood

Part I. The Geopolitics of Mastery: 1. Slaveholders' stake in the American empire 2. The compound republic and the cause of the south Part II. The Contours of Proslavery Americanism: 3. Republican masters and American mission 4. Reformed masters and the gospel of nationhood 5. Fragments of the past, histories for the future 6. Yankees as apostates and allies in the American 1850s Part III. Confederate Nationhood and the Revolutions of War: 7. The anatomy of confederate nationhood 8. Reckoning with confederate purpose 9. Liberty, slavery, and the burdens of confederate nationhood.