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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44860861 Title: Apostles of disunion : southern secession commissioners and the causes of the Civil War Author: Charles B Dew Publisher: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001. ISBN/ISSN: 0813920361 9780813920368 9780813921044 pbk 081392104X pbk OCLC:44860861

  
  

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Apostles of disunion : southern secession commissioners and the causes of the Civil War

Author:	Charles B Dew
Publisher:	Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.
Series:	Nation divided.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the slave South carrying a fervent message in pursuit of a clear goal: to persuade the political leadership and the citizenry of the uncommitted slave states to join in the effort to destroy the Union and forge a new Southern nation." "Directly refuting the neo-Confederate contention that slavery was neither the reason for secession nor the catalyst for the resulting onset of hostilities in 1861, Charles B. Dew finds in the commissioners' brutally candid rhetoric a stark white supremacist ideology that proves the contrary. The commissioners included in their speeches a constitutional justification for secession, to be sure, and they pointed to a number of political "outrages" committed by the North in the decades prior to Lincoln's election. But the core of their argument - the reason the right of secession had to be invoked and invoked immediately - did not turn on matters of constitutional interpretation or political principle. 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.  Read more...
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Subjects	Secession -- Southern States. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes. Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. View all subjects
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