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International Labor and Working-class History | 2016

Capitalism and Slavery and the Civil War

James Oakes

They push in different directions, these two great debates. The first, on the relationship between capitalism and slavery, invites us to consider how closely the two systems were connected, to the point where more and more scholars argue that slavery itself was a form of capitalism. The second, on the origins of the American Civil War, highlights the fundamental difference and growing divergence between the free labor system of the North and the slave society of the South, to the point where some scholars see an irreconcilable conflict between the two. Can these competing tendencies be reconciled? Is it possible to define southern slavery as essentially “capitalist” without losing sight of the crucial distinctions between free and enslaved labor? A number of recent books suggest that scholars have begun to recognize the problem but have not quite figured out how to solve it.


Archive | 1982

The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders

James Oakes


Archive | 1990

Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South

James Oakes


Archive | 2012

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

James Oakes


Archive | 2007

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

James Oakes


History Workshop Journal | 1986

The Political Significance of Slave Resistance

James Oakes


Reviews in American History | 1993

The invention of race: Rereading White Over Black

James Oakes; James T. Campbell


Archive | 2014

The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

James Oakes


American Quarterly | 1985

From Republicanism to Liberalism: Ideological Change and the Crisis of the Old South.

James Oakes


Journal of Interdisciplinary History | 1984

The Politics of Economic Development in the Antebellum South@@@Jacksonian Politics and Community Conflict: The Emergence of the Second American Party System in Cumberland County, North Carolina@@@Class, Conflict, and Consensus: Antebellum Southern Community Studies@@@The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890

James Oakes; Harry L. Watson; Orville Vernon Burton; Robert C. McMath; Steven Hahn

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Kate Masur

Northwestern University

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Robert C. McMath

Georgia Institute of Technology

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James T. Campbell

University of the Witwatersrand

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