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William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War

Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists were cruel, meddling, and hypocritical. His personal journey led him through a series of mentors who transformed his political views, and upon moving to frontier Alabama in his twenties, Yancey's penchant for rhetorical and physical violence was soon channeled into a crusade to protect slaveholders' rights
eBook, English, ©2006
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2006
Biography
1 online resource (xi, 477 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
9780807877340, 9781429453981, 0807877344, 1429453982
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Introduction
Jordan's stormy banks
Rebellion and Union
Flush times and bad times in Alabama and South Carolina
Politician
Party and honor
The Alabama platform
Secessionist
Creating the "leaven of disunion"
Public man, private life
Yancey and the house divided
Walker and Walker, the league and the letter
The conventions of 1860
The voice of the South
The men and the hours
In King Arthur's court
Journeys home
The main pillar of the Confederacy
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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