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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... secession in response to a question from a Breckinridge elector . He said that the South would not be justified in seceding if Lincoln were elected and Lincoln would be justified in using force to prevent secession . His response became ...
... 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 secession in response to Lincoln's election . Most replied that ...
... secession of the Upper South.2 20 Breckinridge attempted to call a convention of the states of the Upper South - North Carolina , Tennessee , Virginia , Missouri , Kentucky , Maryland , and Delaware — for February 13 to come up with a ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |