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How Radical Republican Antislavery Rhetoric and Violence Precipitated Secession, October 1859 - April 1861

David Jonathan White

出版	Abbeville Institute Press, 2022-01-15
主題	History / United States / GeneralPsychology / General
ISBN	17334075539781733407557
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ev7dzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

THE SOUTHERN STATES democratically voted to leave the Union in 1860-61. Why Southern voters (the majority of whom did not own slaves) should wish to leave the Union is still hotly debated. This book explores a series of acts of antislavery violence between October 1859 and April 1861, committed by northerners, supported by Republicans, and winked at by the Republican Party (Harper's Ferry, northern prior support for the raid, northern post-facto endorsement of John Brown, the Helper book, the Texas troubles). When a Republican was elected to the White House in 1860, Southerners interpreted that as an endorsement of antislavery violence, so they voted to leave the Union.