Taking a Stand: Portraits from the Southern Seccession Movement

By Walter Brian Cisco

Book Overview

Turbulent decades of sectional discord over slavery, tariffs, and the very meaning of the Constitution would finally explode into war. At no time in American history, was it more true that ideas pull... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572492104
• ISBN13: 9781572492103
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: White Mane Publishing Company
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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5 Carolina men of substance and their struggle with the secession movement in the early to mid 19th century. It brings to life the disproportionate tax systems, and federal encroachments that lead to the reluctant withdraw from the Union. I do recommend it. As the author explains in his preface: the opinions encountered may seem foreign to Americans raised on the facile dogmas and permitted conventions of popular history. Four million Americans did not march off to war in a political vacuum. Those who view the struggle over slavery as a morality play, as well as those who minimize slavery's importance, should both be challenged. In any case, i trust that readers will come to understand that the motivations of secessionist were complex and varied, their arguments eloquent, their explanations understandable and not illogical.