Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War AmericaThis book is a narrative history of the thirty-year struggle to outlaw slavery, starting with the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1834 and extending until the abolition of slavery in the United States at the end of the Civil War. |
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... South starting with South Carolina on December 20 , 1860. The secession process began with the governor of South Carolina , William Gist , writing in October to the governors of the other cotton states to ascertain their interest in ...
... South averaged a slave component of 30 percent or less of the total population . Second , the Upper South states had close economic ties with the North . Third , in the Deep South states , Breckinridge outpolled his two rivals 220,000 ...
... South also succeeded , because without the Upper South especially Virginia — the South would be too weak to deter the North . With the failure of secession in the Upper South during February and March , Davis probably figured that he ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |