The Union on trial : the political journals of Judge William Barclay Napton, 1829-1883
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The Union on trial : the political journals of Judge William Barclay Napton, 1829-1883
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The work The Union on trial : the political journals of Judge William Barclay Napton, 1829-1883 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- The Union on trial : the political journals of Judge William Barclay Napton, 1829-1883
- Title remainder
- the political journals of Judge William Barclay Napton, 1829-1883
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Christopher Phillips and Jason L. Pendleton
- Subject
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- Electronic government information -- Missouri
- Judges -- Missouri -- Diaries
- Missouri -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
- Missouri -- Politics and government -- To 1865
- Napton, William Barclay, 1808-1883 -- Diaries
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
- Diaries
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Spanning some fifty-four years, The Union on Trial is a fascinating look at the journals that William Barclay Napton (1808{u2013}1883), an editor, Missouri lawyer, and state supreme court judge, kept from his time as a student at Princeton to his death in Missouri. Although a northerner by birth, Napton, the owner or trustee of forty-six slaves, viewed American society through a decidedly proslavery lens. Focusing on events between the 1850s and 1870s, especially those associated with the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Union on Trial contains Napton{u2019}s political reflections, offering thoughtful and important perspectives of an educated northern-cum-southern rightist on the key issues that turned Missouri toward the South during the Civil War era. Although Napton{u2019}s journals offer provocative insights into the process of southernization on the border, their real value lies in their author{u2019}s often penetrating analysis of the political, legal, and constitutional revolution that the Civil War generated. Yet the most obvious theme that emerges from Napton{u2019}s journals is the centrality of slavery in Missourians{u2019} measure of themselves and the nation and, ultimately, in how border states constructed their southernness out of the tumultuous events of the era. Napton{u2019}s impressions of the constitutional crises surrounding the Civil War and Reconstruction offer essential arguments with which to consider the magnitude of the nation{u2019}s most transforming conflict. The book also provides a revealing look at the often intensely political nature of jurists in nineteenth-century America. A lengthy introduction contextualizes Napton{u2019}s life and beliefs, assessing his transition from northerner to southerner largely as a product of his political transformation to a proslavery, states{u2019} rights Democrat but also as a result of his marriage into a slaveholding family. Napton{u2019}s tragic Civil War experience was a watershed in his southern evolution, a process that mirrored his state{u2019}s transformation and one that, by way of memory and politics, ultimately defined both. Students and scholars of American history, Missouri history, and the Civil War will find this volume indispensable reading. "--Publishers website
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 973.7/092
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E458
- LC item number
- .N37 2005
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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