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Rebels in the Making - The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy (Hardcover)
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Rebels in the Making - The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy (Hardcover)
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Regardless of whether they owned slaves, Southern whites lived in a
world defined by slavery. As shown by their blaming British and
Northern slave traders for saddling them with slavery, most were
uncomfortable with the institution. While many wanted it ended,
most were content to leave that up to God. All that changed with
the election of Abraham Lincoln. Rebels in the Making is a
narrative-driven history of how and why secession occurred. In this
work, senior Civil War historian William L. Barney narrates the
explosion of the sectional conflict into secession and civil war.
Carefully examining the events in all fifteen slave states and
distinguishing the political circumstances in each, he argues that
this was not a mass democratic movement but one led from above. The
work begins with the deepening strains within Southern society as
the slave economy matured in the mid-nineteenth century and
Southern ideologues struggled to convert whites to the orthodoxy of
slavery as a positive good. It then focuses on the years of
1860-1861 when the sectional conflict led to the break-up of the
Union. As foreshadowed by the fracturing of the Democratic Party
over the issue of federal protection for slavery in the
territories, the election of 1860 set the stage for secession.
Exploiting fears of slave insurrections, anxieties over crops
ravaged by a long drought, and the perceived moral degradation of
submitting to the rule of an antislavery Republican, secessionists
launched a movement in South Carolina that spread across the South
in a frenzied atmosphere described as the great excitement. After
examining why Congress was unable to reach a compromise on the core
issue of slavery's expansion, the study shows why secession swept
over the Lower South in January of 1861 but stalled in the Upper
South. The driving impetus for secession is shown to have come from
the middling ranks of the slaveholders who saw their aspirations of
planter status blocked and denigrated by the Republicans. A
separate chapter on the formation of the Confederate government in
February of 1861 reveals how moderates and former conservatives
pushed aside the original secessionists to assume positions of
leadership. The final chapter centers on the crisis over Fort
Sumter, the resolution of which by Lincoln precipitated a second
wave of secession in the Upper South. Rebels in the Making shows
that secession was not a unified movement, but has its own
proponents and patterns in each of the slave states. It draws
together the voices of planters, non-slaveholders, women, the
enslaved, journalists, and politicians. This is the definitive
study of the seminal moment in Southern history that culminated in
the Civil War.
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