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John C. Calhoun: pro-South, pro-Slavery

John C. Calhoun: pro-South, pro-Slavery. Bram Sims HIST299 Final Presentation. Outline. Thesis Historiography Background Main arguments Conclusion. Pro-South, Pro-Slavery influences. Paternal Financial Political. Historiography .

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John C. Calhoun: pro-South, pro-Slavery

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  1. John C. Calhoun:pro-South, pro-Slavery Bram Sims HIST299 Final Presentation

  2. Outline • Thesis • Historiography • Background • Main arguments • Conclusion

  3. Pro-South, Pro-Slavery influences • Paternal • Financial • Political

  4. Historiography • Frederic Bancroft, Calhoun and the South Carolina nullification movement, 1928. • Irving Bartlett, John C. Calhoun, A Biography, 1993. • August Spain, The Political Theory of John C. Calhoun, 1951. • Charles Wiltse, John C. Calhoun, Nullifier, 1829-1839, John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840-1850, 1949 and 1951 respectively.

  5. Background • Early life • Nationalist • Sectionalist

  6. Paternal Influences • Patrick Calhoun • Standards: Self-government and slavery • Stability

  7. Financial Influences • Agriculture • Recession

  8. Politics • Tariff of 1828 a.k.a. Tariff of Abominations • Petticoat Affair • Switch from Nationalist to Sectionalist

  9. Conclusion • Influences • “Calhoun’s strengths, however, were limited by his unquestioning commitment to his culture and its institutions. Those commitments seemed increasingly out of place in a revolutionary world that chanted the mantra of liberty, equality, and nationality” -John Belohlavek

  10. References • Bancroft, Frederic. Calhoun and the South Carolina nullification movement. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1928. • Bartlett, Irving. John C. Calhoun: A Biography. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1993. • Calhoun, John. Slavery a positive good. 1837. • Spain, August. The Political Theory of John C. Calhoun. New York: Bookman Associates, 1951. • Wiltse, Charles. John C. Calhoun, Nullifier, 1829-1839. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1949. • Wiltse, Charles. John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840-1850. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.

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