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When in the Course of Human Events - Arguing the Case for Southern Secession (Paperback)
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When in the Course of Human Events - Arguing the Case for Southern Secession (Paperback)
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"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them
with one another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation." With these words, thirteen of the British
colonies in North America unanimously declared independence from
British rule. Eighty-five years later, adhering to principles
articulated by their revolutionary forebears, the 11 Confederate
States of America seceded from the United States, plunging the
country into the bloodiest war of its history. Until the
publication of this highly original book, most attempts to explain
the origins of the American Civil War relied heavily on regional
sympathies and mythology-that the South abandoned the Union to
maintain slavery while President Lincoln's primary goal was to
preserve the nation. Prominent scholar Charles Adams challenges
this traditional wisdom. Using primary documents from both foreign
and domestic observers, Adams makes a powerful and convincing case
that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their
political rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Although conventional histories have taught generations of
Americans that this was a war fought for lofty moral principles,
Adams' eloquent history transcends simple Southern partisanship to
show how the Civil War was primarily a battle over competing
commercial interests, opposing interpretations of constitutional
rights, and what English novelist Charles Dickens described as "a
fiscal quarrel." Working from the premise that "wars have seldom
been justified," Adams argues that the Civil War was an avoidable
humanitarian disaster that nearly destroyed American democracy.
This bold and controversial book will not only change how
historians think about the causes of the Civil War bu
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