The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities

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Thomas B. Alexander, "Antebellum North and South in Comparative Perspective: A Discussion," American Historical Review 85 (1980): 1150-1154.

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Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss, A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981).

Lloyd Benson, "Planters and Hoosiers: The Development of Sectional Society in Antebellum Indiana and Mississippi," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1990.

Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (London: Verso, 1997).

Paul Bourke and Donald Debats, Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

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Daniel W. Crofts, Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secessionist Crisis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).

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Robert Darnton, "The New Age of the Book," New York Review of Books (March 19, 1999).

Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001).

Carville Earle, "A Staple Interpretation of Slavery and Free Labor," Geographical Review LXVIII (1978): 51-65.

Stanley L. Engerman, "Antebellum North and South in Comparative Perspective: A Discussion," American Historical Review 85 (1980): 1154-1160.

Robert William Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989).

Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970).

Eric Foner, "The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions," Civil War History 20 (September 1974): 197-214.

William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854, Volume 1 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).

William W. Freehling, The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).

Eugene D. Genovese, "Yeomen Farmers in a Slaveholders' Democracy," Agricultural History 49, no. 2, (April 1975).

Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (New York: Pantheon, 1975).

Eugene Genovese, The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820-1860 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992).

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William E. Gienapp, "The Crisis of American Democracy: The Political System and the Coming of the American Civil War," Why the Civil War Came (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996): 81-124.

Michael F. Goodchild, "Geographic Information Systems and Geographic Research," Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems (New York: The Guilford Press, 1995): 31-50.

Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997).

Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983).

Trevor M. Harris, et al. "Pursuing Social Goals Through Participatory Geographic Information Systems," Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems (New York: The Guilford Press, 1995): 196-222.

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Sam Bowers Hilliard, Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972).

Amy Hillier, "Redlining in Philadelphia," in Anne Kelly Knowles, ed., Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History (Redlands: ESRI Press, 2002): 79-92.

Michael F. Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850s (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992).

Michael F. Holt, Forging a Majority: The Formation of the Republican Party in Pittsburgh, 1848-1860 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969).

Michael F. Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Kenneth E. Koons and Warren R. Hofstra, ed., After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000).

J. Morgan Kousser, "The Irrepressible Repressible Conflict,"Reviews in American History 21 (1993): 207-212.

William A. Link, Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

John D. Majewski, A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).

James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (New York: Knopf, 1982).

Peyton McCrary, Clark Miller, and Dale Baum, "Class and Party in the Secession Crisis: Voting Behavior in the Deep South, 1856-1861,"Journal of Interdisciplinary History 8 no. 2 (Winter 1978): 429-459.

James M. McPherson, "Ante-bellum Southern Exceptionalism: A New Look at an Old Question," Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996): 3-23.

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Janet Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (New York: Free Press, 1997).

Kenneth W. Noe, Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994).

James Oakes, Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990).

James Oakes, The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders (New York: W. W. Norton, 1982).

William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease, The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828-1843 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).

Edward Pessen, "How Different from Each Other Were the Antebellum North and South," American Historical Review 85 (1980): 1119-1149.

Kevin Phillips, The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America (New York: Basic Books, 1999).

John Pickles, "Representations in an Electronic Age: Geography, GIS, and Democracy," Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems (New York: The Guilford Press, 1995): 1-30.

John W. Quist, Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998).

Robert M. Schwartz, "Railways and Population Change in Industrializing England: An Introduction to Historical GIS June 22, 1999

William G. Shade, Democratizing the Old Dominion: Virginia and the Second Party System, 1824-1861 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996).

Edward Conrad Smith, The Borderland in the Civil War (New York: MacMillan Company, 1927).

Humphrey Southall, Ian Gregory, and Paul Ell, Great Britain Historical GIS Project, 2002.

Robert B. Townsend, "Lessons Learned: Five Years in Cyberspace," Perspectives 39 (2001): 3-5.

Harry L. Watson, Jacksonian Politics and Community Conflict: The Emergence of the Second American Party System in Cumberland County, North Carolina (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981).

Gavin Wright, Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1986).

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