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South Carolina Ordinance of Secession 1860
www.historianstevecampbell.comSouth Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860) In the three months that followed Abraham Lincoln’s election as president in November 1860, seven states stretching from South Carolina to Texas seceded from the Union. These were the states of the Cotton Kingdom, where slaves represented a larger part of the total population than in the Upper South.
Slavery and Secession - Caggia Social Studies
caggiasocialstudies.comto Harpers Ferry, stormed the engine house where Brown and his men had barricaded themselves, killed two more of the raiders, and cap-tured Brown. Brown was then turned over to Virginia to be tried for treason. Historians have long debated Brown’s actions. There is no doubt that he hated slavery with all his heart.
Civil War Historiography - National Park Service
www.nps.govPress, 1990). Anyone who still believes that slavery was not central to the coming of the Civil War should study Charles B. Dew's tightly-focused monograph Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001). A very readable and detailed