Debating Southern History

Author : Bruce Clayton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847694143
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating Southern History written by Bruce Clayton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted historians Bruce Clayton and John Salmond explore the mind of the "new South", from the pivotal 1920s to the tempestuous '60s.

Author : Marion Mills Miller
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Debates in American History: The Civil War written by Marion Mills Miller and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1913 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of the most significant debates that have taken place in US history as conducted by the country's most brilliant statesmen. It includes introductory essays by many academics and is intended for any one with an interest in politics and the US.

Author : Marion Mills Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Debates in American History: Slavery from 1790 to 1857 written by Marion Mills Miller and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marion Mills Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Debates in American History: The civil war; with an introduction by H. Watterson written by Marion Mills Miller and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marion Mills Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) written by Marion Mills Miller and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hugh Tulloch
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719049385
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Debate On the American Civil War Era written by Hugh Tulloch and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the first to critically survey the changing and highly controversial historical literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interpretations up to the present. The racial question was one of the central causes of the war; there was recognition of the need for America to conform wholly to the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal." The book both analyzes historians' attitudes and assumptions, and suggests that each writer's perspective was partly determined by the dictates of time and place.

Author : William W. Freehling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195079450
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secession Debated written by William W. Freehling and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between secessionists and Unionists in Georgia generated as much popular interest south of the Mason-Dixon line, and perhaps had an even more profound immediate effect on the future of the United States. With Abraham Lincoln's "Black Republican" triumph in the presidential election of 1860 came ardent secessionist sentiment in the South. But Unionists were equally zealous and while South Carolina—a bastion of Disunionism since 1832—seemed certain to secede, the other fourteen slave states were far from decided. In the deep South, the road to disunion depended much on the actions of Georgia, a veritable microcosm of the divided South and geographically in the middle of the Cotton South. If Georgia went for the Union, secessionist South Carolina could be isolated. So in November of 1860 all the eyes of Dixie turned to tiny Milledgeville, pre-war capital of Georgia, for a legislative confrontation that would help chart the course toward civil war. In Secession Debated, William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson have for the first time collected the seven surviving speeches and public letters of this greatest of southern debates over disunion, providing today's reader with a unique window into a moment of American crisis. Introducing the debate and debaters in compelling fashion, the editors help bring to life a sleepy Southern town suddenly alive with importance as a divided legislature met to decide the fate of Georgia, and by extension, that of the nation. We hear myriad voices, among them the energetic and self-righteous governor Joseph E. Brown who, while a slaveholder and secessionist, was somewhat suspect as a native North Georgian; Alexander H. Stephens, the eloquent Unionist whose "calm dispassionate approach" ultimately backfired; and fiery secessionist Robert Toombs who, impatient with Brown's indecisiveness and the caution of the Unionists, shouted to legislators: "Give me the sword! but if you do not place it in my hands, before God! I will take it." The secessionists' Henry Benning and Thomas R.R. Cobb as well as the Unionists Benjamin Hill and Herschel Johnson also speak to us across the years, most with eloquence, all with the patriotic, passionate conviction that defined an era. In the end, the legislature adopted a convention bill which decreed a popular vote on the issue in early January, 1861. The election results were close, mirroring the intense debate of two months before: 51% of Georgians favored immediate secession, a slim margin which the propaganda-conscious Brown later inflated to 58%. On January 19th the Georgia Convention sanctioned secession in a 166-130 vote, and the imminent Confederacy had its Southern hinge. Secession Debated is a colorful and gripping tale told in the words of the actual participants, one which sheds new light on one of the great and hitherto neglected verbal showdowns in American history. It is essential to a full understanding of the origins of the war between the states.

Author : Marion Mills Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Debates in American History: Slavery from 1790 to 1857; with an introduction by C. F. Adams written by Marion Mills Miller and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark M. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521576963
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating Slavery written by Mark M. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Similar questions concerning the profitability of slavery, its impact on masters, slaves, and nonslaveowners still inform modern historical debates. Is the slave South best characterized as a capitalist society? Or did its dogged adherence to non-wage labor render it precapitalist? Today, southern slavery is among the most hotly disputed topics in writing on American history. With the use of illustrative material and a critical bibliography, Dr Smith outlines the main contours of this complex debate, summarizes the contending viewpoints, and at the same time weighs up the relative importance, strengths and weaknesses of the various competing interpretations. This book introduces an important topic in American history in a manner which is accessible to students and undergraduates taking courses in American history.

Author : Loren Schweninger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252026324
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Petitions to Southern legislatures, 1778-1864 written by Loren Schweninger and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 180 county court petitions designed to offer as broad a selection as possible and include the voices of all participants: black and white, slave and free, slaveholder and non-slaveholder, male and female.