Rebels in the making : the secession crisis and the birth of the Confederacy / William L. Barney.
2020
E441 .B339 2020
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Title
Rebels in the making : the secession crisis and the birth of the Confederacy / William L. Barney.
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ISBN
9780190076115 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
E441 .B339 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.711
Summary
Rebels in the Making narrates and interprets secession in the fifteen slave states in 1860-1861. It is a political history informed by the socioeconomic structures of the South and the varying forms they took across the region. It explains how a small minority of Southern radicals exploited the hopes and fears of Southern whites over slavery after Lincoln's election in November of 1860 to create and lead a revolutionary movement with broad support, especially in the Lower South. In January 1861, six states in the Lower South joined South Carolina in leaving the Union, and delegates from the seceded states organized a Confederate government in February. Lincoln's call for troops to uphold the Union after the Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861 finally pushed the reluctant states of the Upper South to secede in defense of slavery and white supremacy.
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Includes index.
Rebels in the Making narrates and interprets secession in the fifteen slave states in 1860-1861. It is a political history informed by the socioeconomic structures of the South and the varying forms they took across the region. It explains how a small minority of Southern radicals exploited the hopes and fears of Southern whites over slavery after Lincoln's election in November of 1860 to create and lead a revolutionary movement with broad support, especially in the Lower South. In January 1861, six states in the Lower South joined South Carolina in leaving the Union, and delegates from the seceded states organized a Confederate government in February. Lincoln's call for troops to uphold the Union after the Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861 finally pushed the reluctant states of the Upper South to secede in defense of slavery and white supremacy.
Rebels in the Making narrates and interprets secession in the fifteen slave states in 1860-1861. It is a political history informed by the socioeconomic structures of the South and the varying forms they took across the region. It explains how a small minority of Southern radicals exploited the hopes and fears of Southern whites over slavery after Lincoln's election in November of 1860 to create and lead a revolutionary movement with broad support, especially in the Lower South. In January 1861, six states in the Lower South joined South Carolina in leaving the Union, and delegates from the seceded states organized a Confederate government in February. Lincoln's call for troops to uphold the Union after the Confederacy fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861 finally pushed the reluctant states of the Upper South to secede in defense of slavery and white supremacy.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190076085
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