Charles B. Charlottesville and London: University Press of. Front Cover. University Press of Virginia, Apostles of Disunion has ratings and 70 reviews. Some articles have Vimeo videos few in them. As a native southerner, and as a distant son of Confederate veterans, Dew writes with measured regret in issuing this lament for his heritage. University of Virginia Press P. However, Dew, as is apparent throughout the text, pays close attention towards the language of the commissioners in their speeches that explain why they favor of succession.
Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil WarDew argues that the leading proponents of southern secession advocated secession as a means of protecting southern slave-holding culture and race-based social hierarchies.
The initial flurry of commissioners spanned four days, December 17 th to the 20 th There could be no turning back now, the balance of power had finally been irreparably tipped in favor of Northern anti-slavery fanaticism, which would sweep slavery from not just the territories but quickly as well from the entire nation. Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.
No trivia or quizzes yet. A move which would isolate and confine slavery solely to those states where it then existed, thus inevitably hastening its complete demise throughout the country. Yet while Dew does an excellent job of analyzing the arguments of the commissioners, his narrow focus on the speeches themselves leaves a few questions unanswered. Phone Number. Job Title. Company Size Company Size: 1 - 25 26 - 99 - - 1, - 4, 5, - 9, 10, - 19, 20, or More.
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No, thanks. Windows Mac Linux. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Disunion and slavery. A series of letters to Hon. Yancey, of Alabama Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Freehling provides compelling profiles of the leaders of this movement--many of them members of the South Carolina elite.
Throughout the narrative, he evokes a world of fascinating characters and places as he captures the drama of one of America's most important--and least understood--stories. The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning Secessionists at Bay, which was hailed as "the most important history of the Old South ever published," this volume concludes a major contribution to our understanding of the Civil War. A compelling, vivid portrait of the final years of the antebellum South, The Road to Disunion will stand as an important history of its subject.
Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, Peter S. Carmichael looks closely at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery.
He finds them deeply engaged in the political, economic, and cultural forces of their time. Age, he concludes, created special concerns for young men who spent their formative years in the s. Before the Civil War, these young men thought long and hard about Virginia's place as a progressive slave society.
They vigorously lobbied for disunion despite opposition from their elders, then served as officers in the Army of Northern Virginia as frontline negotiators with the nonslaveholding rank and file.
After the war, however, they quickly shed their Confederate radicalism to pursue the political goals of home rule and New South economic development and reconciliation. Not until the turn of the century, when these men were nearing the ends of their lives, did the mythmaking and storytelling begin, and members of the last generation recast themselves once more as unreconstructed Rebels.
By examining the lives of members of this generation on personal as well as generational and cultural levels, Carmichael sheds new light on the formation and reformation of Southern identity during the turbulent last half of the nineteenth century. For more than thirty years, the study of honor has been fundamental to understanding southern culture and history. Defined chiefly as reputation or public esteem, honor penetrated virtually every aspect of southern ethics and behavior, including race, gender, law, education, religion, and violence.
In The Field of Honor: Essays on Southern Character and American Identity, editors John Mayfield and Todd Hagstette bring together new research by twenty emerging and established scholars who study the varied practices and principles of honor in its American context, across an array of academic disciplines.
Bruce, and Edward L. Ayers, this collection notes that honor became a distinctive mark of southern culture and something that—alongside slavery—set the South distinctly off from the rest of the United States. They do so by methodologically examining legal studies, market behaviors, gender, violence, and religious and literary expressions. Some topics are traditional for the study of honor, some are new, but all explore the question: how different really is the South from America writ large?
The Field of Honor builds an essential bridge between two distinct definitions of southern—and, by extension, American—character and identity.
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