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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2006.
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Colección: | Civil War America (Series)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.