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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Personalized
- No
- Level
- Advanced
- ISBN
- 9780813921044
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
081392104X
ISBN-13
9780813921044
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038686149
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
138 Pages
Publication Name
Apostles of Disunion : Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Language
English
Subject
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Economic Conditions, American Government / General
Publication Year
2002
Features
Reprint
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Series
A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Dew has produced an eye-opening study....So much for states' rights as the engine of secession." -- James McPherson, The New York Review of Books, "This incisive history should dispel the pernicious notion that the Confederacy fought the Civil War to advance the constitutional principle of states' rights and only coincidentally to preserve slavery." -- The New York Times Book Review, This incisive history should dispel the pernicious notion that the Confederacy fought the Civil War to advance the constitutional principle of states' rights and only coincidentally to preserve slavery., Charles B. Dew offers a penetrating and incisive evaluation of secessionist ideology, with a clear eye to the priority of race over issues of constitutional rights. The principal source on which the book is built certainly appears neglected to me, and the source is worthy of exploitation: we have an opportunity here to see what Southerners said to each other and not what they said primarily to the North or to the world., Drawing on the records of secession commissioners, Charles B. Dew has provided a stunning analysis of the South's decision to leave the United States, which brought on the Civil War. This is an important study, meticulously researched and convincingly argued. Especially now, when heated debates about the display of the Confederate flag and the historical meaning of Civil War reenactment strain the social fabric of the nation, this book is a must-read., With stunning clarity, Apostles of Disunion reminds us that race and slavery were at the center of the march toward secession. This small but powerful book should be required reading for all students of the Civil War.
Grade From
College Freshman
Dewey Decimal
973.7/11
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
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. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century after the Civil War, Dew challenges many current perceptions of the causes of the conflict. He offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were absolutely critical factors in the outbreak of war--indeed, that they were at the heart of our great national crisis.
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