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John A. Quitman - Old South Crusader (Paperback)
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John A. Quitman - Old South Crusader (Paperback)
Series: Southern Biography Series
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The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Quitman
was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the
entire South. In this full-length biography, Robert E. May takes
issue with the recent tendency to portray secessionists as
rabble-rousing, maladjusted outsiders bent on the glories of
separate nationhood. May reveals Quitman to have been an ambitious
but relatively stable insider who reluctantly advocated secession
because of a despondency over slavery's long-range future in the
Union and a related conviction that northerners no longer respected
southern claims to equality as American citizens. A fervent
disciple of South Carolina ""radical"" John C. Calhoun's
nullification theories, Quitman also gained notoriety as his
region's most strident slavery imperialist. He articulated the case
for new slaver territory, participated in the Texas Revolution, won
national acclaim as a volunteer general in the Mexican War, and
organised a private military, or ""filibustering"", expedition with
the intent of liberating Cuba from Spanish rule and making the
island a new slave state. In 1850, while governor of Mississippi
during the California crisis, Quitman wielded his influence in a
vain attempt to induce Mississippi secession. Later, in Congress,
he marked out an extreme southern position on Kansas. Mississippi's
most vehement ""fire-eater,"" Quitman played a significant role in
the North-South estrangement that led to the American Civil War.
The first critical biography of this important figure, May's study
sheds light on such current historical controversies as whether
antebellum southerners were peculiarly militaristic or
""antibourgeois"" and helps illuminate the slave-master relations,
mobility, intraregional class and geographic friction, partisan
politics, and family customs of the Old South.
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