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The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860

The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860

Paperback

Series: Library of Alabama Classics

Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 0817350896
ISBN13: 9780817350895
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: Jan 12 2004
Pages: 371
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.56 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
This is an outline of the economic crisis in the South based on the declining yields, increasing class stratification and higher slave prices. It supplies data on the property holdings and occupations of the elected representatives and finds the secessionists to be young, probably lawyers who were both ambitious and confident. Because the economic dislocation of the 1850s made people receptive to a rhetoric that emphasized conspiratorial abolitionists and almost paranoid fear of blacks and strangers, the politicians were able to persuade their constituents that a real crisis did exist and that secession was the only remedy.

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Barney, William L.

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Civil War Period (1850-1877)