Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: First Congress to the Trial of Independence
Chapter 1: “Civil Wars Among Ourselves”
Chapter 2: “Unite or Die”
Chapter 3: South Carolina Withdraws
Chapter 4: “A Fatal Issue to Our Union”
Chapter 5: “Intestine Wars and Convulsions”
Chapter 6: “Colonies Might Secede from the Union”
Chapter 7: “A Firm League of Friendship”
Part Two: Alliance, Confederation, and Crisis of Union
Chapter 8: The Mississippi and Fisheries
Chapter 9: “The Very Salvation of These States”
Chapter 10: “North Against South”
Chapter 11: The Mississippi and Fisheries Again
Chapter 12: Crisis of Union
Part Three: First Constitution and the Perils of Peace
Chapter 13: “The Body Politic Is Sick, Sick Indeed!”
Chapter 14: “A Confederation of Very Dissonant Parts”
Chapter 15: “The Power of Britain in These States Is Now Broken”
Chapter 16: “Symptoms of Disunion”
Chapter 17: “Le Washington de la Negotiation”
Chapter 18: “The Greatest Empire in the World”
Chapter 19: “Stained with the Blood of Her Sons”
Chapter 20: “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”
Notes
Bibliography
Index