Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800-1860

By exploring antebellum politics in Alabama, Thornton explains the conditions of the hidden alliance between slavery and Jacksonian ideology that made secession possible. Supported with maps, charts, and voting records, Politics and Power argues that slavery, contrary to our conventional wisdom, was not an un-American institution. White Alabamians, valuing personal freedom and political equality, came to believe that their independence was predicated on the preservation of black slavery.Thornton, J. Mills, III is the author of 'Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800-1860' with ISBN 9780807108918 and ISBN 080710891X.