Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 081392104X
- ISBN-13
- 9780813921044
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 124
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Author
- Charles B. Dew
Description
Over and over again, the commissioners returned to the same point: that Lincoln's election signaled an unequivocal commitment on the part of the North to destroy slavery and that emancipation would plunge the South into a racial nightmare." "Dew's discovery and study of the highly illuminating public letters and speeches of these apostles of disunion - often relatively obscure men sent out to convert the unconverted to the secessionist cause - have led him to suggest that the arguments the commissioners presented provide us with the best evidence we have of the motives behind the secession of the lower South in 1860-61"--Jacket.
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