Transcript John C. Calhoun: pro-South, pro-Slavery

Bram Sims
HIST299 Final Presentation
Outline
Thesis
Historiography
Background
Main arguments
Conclusion
Pro-South, Pro-Slavery influences
 Paternal
 Financial
 Political
Historiography
 Frederic Bancroft, Calhoun and the South Carolina
nullification movement, 1928.
 Irving Bartlett, John C. Calhoun, A Biography, 1993.
 August Spain, The Political Theory of John C. Calhoun,
1951.
 Charles Wiltse, John C. Calhoun, Nullifier, 1829-1839,
John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840-1850, 1949 and 1951
respectively.
Background
 Early life
 Nationalist
 Sectionalist
Paternal Influences
•Patrick Calhoun
•Standards: Selfgovernment and
slavery
•Stability
Financial Influences
•Agriculture
• Recession
Politics
•Tariff of 1828 a.k.a. Tariff of
Abominations
•Petticoat Affair
•Switch from Nationalist to
Sectionalist
Conclusion
 Influences
 “Calhoun’s strengths, however, were limited by his
unquestioning commitment to his culture and its
institutions. Those commitments seemed increasingly
out of place in a revolutionary world that chanted the
mantra of liberty, equality, and nationality”
-John Belohlavek
References
 Bancroft, Frederic. Calhoun and the South Carolina
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nullification movement. Baltimore: The John Hopkins
Press, 1928.
Bartlett, Irving. John C. Calhoun: A Biography. New York:
W.W. Norton and Company, 1993.
Calhoun, John. Slavery a positive good. 1837.
Spain, August. The Political Theory of John C. Calhoun.
New York: Bookman Associates, 1951.
Wiltse, Charles. John C. Calhoun, Nullifier, 1829-1839.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1949.
Wiltse, Charles. John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840-1850.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.