Conservative Americanism
Conservative Americanism
Nativism, Unionism, and Slavery in Border South Politics, 1854–1861
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In Conservative Americanism, the author traces Conservative Americanist ideology between 1854 to 1861 and argues that Border Southerners who joined the American or Know Nothing Party were nativists who believed that foreigners and foreign ideas threatened the institution of slavery and the stability of the Union.