Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession CrisisDaniel Crofts examines Unionists in three pivotal southern states--Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee--and shows why the outbreak of the war enabled the Confederacy to gain the allegiance of these essential, if ambivalent, governments. "Crofts's study focuses on Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, but it includes analyses of the North and Deep South as well. As a result, his volume presents the views of all parties to the sectional conflict and offers a vivid portrait of the interaction between them.--American Historical Review "Refocuses our attention on an important but surprisingly neglected group--the Unionists of the upper South during the secession crisis, who have been too readily ignored by other historians.--Journal of Southern History |
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... slave states , including four that ultimately fought on the south- ern side , popular majorities emphatically opposed secession . Only when forced in April to choose sides in a war between North and South did Virginia , North Carolina ...
... slave states , including four that ultimately fought on the south- ern side , popular majorities emphatically opposed secession . Only when forced in April to choose sides in a war between North and South did Virginia , North Carolina ...
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... slaves almost as if they were free.32 Gilmer first won election to the state legislature in 1846 and soon moved up to the ... slave states of the upper South in the Union.34 Davis , Seward , and Lincoln thus all saw John A. Gilmer as the ...
... slaves almost as if they were free.32 Gilmer first won election to the state legislature in 1846 and soon moved up to the ... slave states of the upper South in the Union.34 Davis , Seward , and Lincoln thus all saw John A. Gilmer as the ...
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... slave population = 490,865 ( 30.5 percent ) Virginia's free black population = 58,037 ( 3.6 percent ) Virginia's ... Slaves in Virginia's Population , by County , 1860 Census ** Political Parties in the Upper South | 39 40 | Reluctant ...
... slave population = 490,865 ( 30.5 percent ) Virginia's free black population = 58,037 ( 3.6 percent ) Virginia's ... Slaves in Virginia's Population , by County , 1860 Census ** Political Parties in the Upper South | 39 40 | Reluctant ...
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... slave population = 331,059 ( 33.4 percent ) North Carolina's free black population = 30,463 ( 3.1 percent ) North ... Slaves in North Carolina's Population , by County , 1860 Census 42 | Reluctant Confederates Robert- Macon Fen ...
... slave population = 331,059 ( 33.4 percent ) North Carolina's free black population = 30,463 ( 3.1 percent ) North ... Slaves in North Carolina's Population , by County , 1860 Census 42 | Reluctant Confederates Robert- Macon Fen ...
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... Tennessee population = 1,109,741 more than 60 percent MAP 2-6 . Percentage of Slaves in Tennessee's Population , by County , 1860 Census Political Parties in the Upper South | 43 The Blue Ridge bisected Virginia . Slave - based agriculture.
... Tennessee population = 1,109,741 more than 60 percent MAP 2-6 . Percentage of Slaves in Tennessee's Population , by County , 1860 Census Political Parties in the Upper South | 43 The Blue Ridge bisected Virginia . Slave - based agriculture.
Contents
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3 The Political Origins of Upper South Unionism | 66 |
4 Unionists on the Defensive | 90 |
5 The Unionist Argument | 104 |
6 The Unionist Offensive | 130 |
7 Measuring the Unionist Insurgency | 164 |
11 Reversal of the HandsOff Policy | 289 |
12 The Unionists Fort Sumter and the Proclamation for Seventyfive Thousand Troops | 308 |
Southern Unionists after the Proclamation | 334 |
Rethinking the Secession Crisis | 353 |
Multiple RegressionParty Slavery and Secession | 361 |
Ecological RegressionEstimating Voter Behavior | 367 |
Statistics Secession and the Historians | 376 |
Notes | 383 |
8 The Unionists and Compromise | 195 |
9 The Unionists the Republican Party and PresidentElect Lincoln | 215 |
10 The Unionists and President LincolnThe March 1861 Rapprochement | 254 |
Bibliographical Essay | 457 |
Index | 481 |
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