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A 3 page research paper that uses Levine's 1992 text as a guide in discussing the principal reason behind the American Civil War. Levine demonstrates that given the inconsistencies between the regions in the antebellum North and South, war was inevitable and the slavery question could not have been decided any other way. Levine's scholarship demonstrates how the 1861 conflict evolved out of tensions that were left unresolved by the American Revolution. No additional sources cited.
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American Civil War, which Levine refers to as the "second act of Americas democratic revolution."1 This cultural orientation presents the American Revolution as generating an alliance between slave-labor and free-labor
communities. However, this uneasy association collapsed due to the weight of internal crises that occurred within each section. Levine demonstrates that given the inconsistencies between the regions in the antebellum
North and South, war was inevitable and the slavery question could not have been decided any other way. Levines scholarship demonstrates how the 1861 conflict evolved out of tensions that
were left unresolved by the American Revolution. First of all, Levine demonstrates the marked dichotomy between the cultures of the North and South. By the revolutionary era, there were no
sizeable group in the North that had a vested interest in preserving any form of institutional bound labor.2 Levine explains how Thomas Jefferson, and similar thinkers, felt that the situation
of slavery would resolve itself naturally. Jefferson wrote that the "value of the slave is every day lessening; his (burden) on his master (daily) increasing. Interest is therefore preparing the
disposition to be just."3 Jefferson seriously misread the cultural trend, as slavery became more entrenched in the South over time. In contrast to the stance held in the South, which
saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as constituting a exploitive labor system in a manner not to be
matched elsewhere. This caused Northern workers to forge an alliance with Republicans that sought to protect the workers "right to rise."4 As this suggests, Levine argues persuasively that the primary
motivating factor in the American Civil War was that it boiled down to a conflict between a free-labor and a slave-labor systems. These systems serve as the focal points around
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