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A 4 page discussion of the material presented in a chapter of a book titled Social
Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by author Barrington Moore. Moore tackles the subject
of the causes and effects of the American Civil War and the importance of the ideology of slavery. No additional sources are listed.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPcivWr6.rtf
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Moore tackles the subject of the causes and effects of the American Civil War in the chapter titled "The American Civil War: The Last Capitalist Revolution" included in his
book, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World. More specifically, Moore examines the necessity of having to resort to
armed conflict to address the issue of slavery in particular. Moore (1993) makes it clear in the chapter that slavery was really only an ancillary issue in the Civil
War. Never-the-less it seems to have held precedence in the minds of many both prior to, during, and after the ultimate outbreak of warfare.
While many have contended over time that in reality the institution of slavery would have come to an end on its own in the American South, Moore disagrees.
He point out that even in the northern states emancipation took a certain toll. He notes:
"Union states that had slavery dragged their feet and expressed all sorts of apprehension when Lincoln tried to introduce a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for
the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118). The resistance was so stringent, in
fact, that Lincoln ultimately dropped his plan for emancipation of slaves in the north. Interestingly, the Emancipation Proclamation that was finally issued on January 1, 1863 actually excluded slave
states that fell within Union boundaries! In other words, the Emancipation applied only to those states that were resisting the efforts of the North to control their actions.
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