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Conflict and Compromise: Slavery and the American Civil War

In 1983 Roger L. Ransom was a professor of economics at the University of California, Riverside, when its history department offered him a position in nineteenth-century United States history. His previous work, in collaboration with Richard Sutch, had been widely hailed by historians, especially their book, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation (Cambridge University Press, 1977). Ransom welcomed the challenge of leaving the "carefully structured theoretical world of economists" for "the almost limitless range of opportunities available in the world of historians" (xiii). Deciding to begin with a course in the American Civil War, he shaped a series of lectures that became the basis of Conflict and Compromise. Ransom described his book as "an economic historian's attempt to analyze and 'make sense of the economic and political factors that produced the conflict we call the Civil War" (xiv). Noting that historians have tended to divide "their profession into a multitude of little 'boxes' delimited by the time period and the group or region to be studied," the author hoped to "bridge the gap that exists between the general or omnibus work and the more specialized research addressed primarily to historians" (4). Specifically, Ransom sought "to step back and take a broader look at a particular part of the historical puzzle of the Civil War and Reconstruction era: The problem of slavery and emancipation in the United States" (5). Covering 1776 to 1876, the book is divided into eight