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An Excellent Study of South Carolina's Secession,
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina (Norton Library, N730) (Paperback)
Stephen Channing ascribes the secessionist movement of 1860 in South Carolina to a "crisis of fear." South Carolinians, ever conscious of the black majority in their state, worried continuously about controlling the Negro in the absence of slavery. This fear, according to Channing, was crystallized into rife paranoia in the wake of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Internal tensions, such as the perpetual contest between upcountry and lowcountry planters for primacy in state government, were eclipsed by this terrible fear. Moderates, who had opposed secession or, at the least, the secession of the Palmetto state on its own, essentially handed over the reins of leadership to the radicals--at the time, it appeared that the dire warnings long spewed forth by the Fire-eaters were becoming reality. Channing implies that Southern culture differed from that of the North to such a degree that secession was inevitable, and he contends that slavery was at the core of the mindset that animated the War Between the States.
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The northbound express left Charleston on Wednesday, January 11, and did not reach Richmond until six o'clock Thursday night. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
speakership controversy, tidewater parishes, separate secession, separate state action, abolition emissaries, slave unrest, patrol laws, secession attempt, foreign slave trade, immediate secession, secession movement, other slave states, sectional controversy, convention movement, convention party, squatter sovereignty, vigilance association, race control, cotton states, state party convention, slavery expansion, antislavery crusade, secession crisis, political moderation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Carolina, Miles Papers, New York, Hammond Papers, Harpers Ferry, John Brown, South Carolinians, National Democrats, William Porcher Miles, Edmund Ruffin, Alfred Huger, James Hammond, Perry Papers, Robert Barnwell Rhett, William Elliott, James Buchanan, Pettigrew Family Papers, William Gilmore Simms, Charleston Mercury, William Henry Trescot, Edgefield Advertiser, Memminger Papers, Arthur Simkins, Henry William Ravenel, Charleston Daily Courier New!
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The northbound express left Charleston on Wednesday, January 11, and did not reach Richmond until six o'clock Thursday night. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
speakership controversy, tidewater parishes, separate secession, separate state action, abolition emissaries, slave unrest, patrol laws, secession attempt, foreign slave trade, immediate secession, secession movement, other slave states, sectional controversy, convention movement, convention party, squatter sovereignty, vigilance association, race control, cotton states, state party convention, slavery expansion, antislavery crusade, secession crisis, political moderation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Carolina, Miles Papers, New York, Hammond Papers, Harpers Ferry, John Brown, South Carolinians, National Democrats, William Porcher Miles, Edmund Ruffin, Alfred Huger, James Hammond, Perry Papers, Robert Barnwell Rhett, William Elliott, James Buchanan, Pettigrew Family Papers, William Gilmore Simms, Charleston Mercury, William Henry Trescot, Edgefield Advertiser, Memminger Papers, Arthur Simkins, Henry William Ravenel, Charleston Daily Courier New!
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- State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina by Richard Zuczek in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Gideon Lincecum's Sword: Civil War Letters from the Texas Home Front by Jerry Bryan Lincecum on page 48, and Back Matter
- From the Old South to the New: Essays on the Transitional South (Contributions in American History) by Walter, J. Fraser on page 79, and Back Matter
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