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. |
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... February 1861 176 178 7-3 How North Carolina Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners Divided Their Votes : Estimated Percentages for November 1860 and February 1861 7-4 North Carolina : Estimated Percentages of Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners in ...
... February 1861 176 178 7-3 How North Carolina Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners Divided Their Votes : Estimated Percentages for November 1860 and February 1861 7-4 North Carolina : Estimated Percentages of Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners in ...
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... February 1861 , and June 1861 184 7-6 Tennessee : Estimated Percentages of Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners in Voting Blocs , November 1860 , February 1861 , and June 1861 186 7-7 February 1861 Patterns of November 1860 Virginia Voters ...
... February 1861 , and June 1861 184 7-6 Tennessee : Estimated Percentages of Slaveowners and Nonslaveowners in Voting Blocs , November 1860 , February 1861 , and June 1861 186 7-7 February 1861 Patterns of November 1860 Virginia Voters ...
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... February 1861 : Whig and Democratic Counties Contrasted 166 7-3 Tennessee Voting Patterns , February and June 1861 : Whig and Democratic Counties Contrasted 7-4 Virginia Voting Patterns , 1860-1861 : Low- and High- Slaveowning Counties ...
... February 1861 : Whig and Democratic Counties Contrasted 166 7-3 Tennessee Voting Patterns , February and June 1861 : Whig and Democratic Counties Contrasted 7-4 Virginia Voting Patterns , 1860-1861 : Low- and High- Slaveowning Counties ...
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... February 1861 141 6-2 Percentage for Secession , by County , North Carolina , February 1861 150 6-3 Percentage for Secession , by County , Tennessee , February 1861 151 13-1 Percentage for Separation , by County , Tennessee , June 1861 ...
... February 1861 141 6-2 Percentage for Secession , by County , North Carolina , February 1861 150 6-3 Percentage for Secession , by County , Tennessee , February 1861 151 13-1 Percentage for Separation , by County , Tennessee , June 1861 ...
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... February 1861. Voters in all three states decisively rejected southern independence . To be sure , Unionists usually attached conditions to their allegiance , pledging to resist federal " coercion " of the seceding states . They ...
... February 1861. Voters in all three states decisively rejected southern independence . To be sure , Unionists usually attached conditions to their allegiance , pledging to resist federal " coercion " of the seceding states . They ...
Contents
Unionist Profiles | 8 |
Political Parties in the Late Antebellum Upper South | 37 |
The Political Origins of Upper South Unionism | 66 |
Unionists on the Defensive | 90 |
The Unionist Offensive | 104 |
The Unionist Offensive | 130 |
Measuring the Unionist Insurgency | 164 |
The Unionists and Compromise | 195 |
The Unionists Fort Sumter and the Proclamation for Seventyfive Thousand Troops | 308 |
Forced to Choose Sides Southern Unionists after the Proclamation | 334 |
Rethinking the Secession Crisis | 353 |
Multiple Regression Party Slavery and Secession | 361 |
Ecological Regression Estimating Voter Behavior | 367 |
Statistics Secession and the Historians | 376 |
Notes | 383 |
Bibliographical Essay | 457 |
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Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts Limited preview - 2014 |
Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis Daniel W. Crofts No preview available - 1993 |
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