books.google.co.uk - Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the antebellum South was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, as Northern egalitarianism infiltrated border...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Road_to_Disunion.html?id=OCSL1OEwV6AC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Road to Disunion
