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Shattering the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy, historian James Oakes reveals them as having been just as entrepreneurial as their northern counterparts, committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. Oakes's pathbreaking analysis shows the Civil War as not a conflict of separate ideologies, but instead the split of a single system.