The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861Oxford University Press, 01/10/2008 - 624 من الصفحات Here is history in the grand manner, a powerful narrative peopled with dozens of memorable portraits, telling this important story with skill and relish. Freehling highlights all the key moments on the road to war, including the violence in Bleeding Kansas, Preston Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate chambers, the Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and much more. As Freehling shows, the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked a political crisis, but at first most Southerners took a cautious approach, willing to wait and see what Lincoln would do--especially, whether he would take any antagonistic measures against the South. But at this moment, the extreme fringe in the South took charge, first in South Carolina and Mississippi, but then throughout the lower South, sounding the drum roll for secession. Indeed, The Road to Disunion is the first book to fully document how this decided minority of Southern hotspurs took hold of the secessionist issue and, aided by a series of fortuitous events, drove the South out of the Union. Freehling provides compelling profiles of the leaders of this movement--many of them members of the South Carolina elite. Throughout the narrative, he evokes a world of fascinating characters and places as he captures the drama of one of America's most important--and least understood--stories. The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning Secessionists at Bay, which was hailed as "the most important history of the Old South ever published," this volume concludes a major contribution to our understanding of the Civil War. A compelling, vivid portrait of the final years of the antebellum South, The Road to Disunion will stand as an important history of its subject. "This sure-to-be-lasting work--studded with pen portraits and consistently astute in its appraisal of the subtle cultural and geographic variations in the region--adds crucial layers to scholarship on the origins of America's bloodiest conflict." --The Atlantic Monthly "Splendid, painstaking account...and so a work of history reaches into the past to illuminate the present. It is light we need, and we owe Freehling a debt for shedding it." --Washington Post "A masterful, dramatic, breathtakingly detailed narrative." --The Baltimore Sun |
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THE CLIMACTIC IDEOLOGICAL FRUSTRATIONS | 25 |
THE CLIMACTIC POLITICAL FRUSTRATIONS | 59 |
JOHN BROWN AND THREE OTHER MEN COINCIDENTALLY NAMED JOHN | 203 |
THE ELECTION OF 1860 | 269 |
SOUTH CAROLINA DARES | 343 |
LOWER SOUTH LANDSLIDE UPPER SOUTH STALEMATE | 427 |
Abbreviations Used in Notes | 535 |
Notes | 537 |
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abolitionists African agitation Alabama Alexander Stephens American antislavery Atchison Border South Buchanan Carolinians Charleston Christian Cobb compromise Congress congressional convention’s Cooperationists Davis Davis’s December decision delegates Democracy Democratic Party disunion disunionists Douglas Dred Scott emancipation enslaved extremists federal Fitzhugh free blacks free labor fugitive slave Georgia Gourdin Governor Hammond Helper Henry House Howell Cobb Ibid inside Institute Hall James James Buchanan Jefferson John Brown Kansas Kansas-Nebraska Act Keitt Kentucky Lecompton legislature lowcountry Lower South majority Maryland masters Memminger Mississippi Missouri National Democratic nonslaveholders North Northern Democrats November Orleans Papers Party’s percent political president Preston Brooks proslavery revolution Rhett Robert Robert Barnwell Rhett secede secession secessionists Separatists Slave Power slaveholders slavery slavery’s South Carolina southern convention Southern Republican state’s rights Sumter territorial Texas Thornwell tion U.S. Senate ultimatum Union Unionists Upper South Virginia voters votes Walker Whigs white men’s William William Lowndes Yancey Yancey Yancey’s Yankee