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The House Divided: A Sourcebook for the Secession Crisis of 1860-61

Abraham Lincoln

3/5 ( ratings)

In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected President by a narrow plurality, lighting the fuse on the bomb that would explode five months later at Fort Sumter. 150 years later, controversy still swirls around what exactly caused this conflagration. Were the Southron rebels motivated by anything other than slavery? Was the war about states' rights and the economic disparity between North and South?

This book compiles dozens of letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and the ordinances of secession of the Confederate states to illustrate the arguments on both sides, and to show the sequence of events that led to one of America's bloodiest wars.

Language: English

Pages: 326

Format: Kindle Edition

The House Divided: A Sourcebook for the Secession Crisis of 1860-61

Abraham Lincoln

3/5 ( ratings)

In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected President by a narrow plurality, lighting the fuse on the bomb that would explode five months later at Fort Sumter. 150 years later, controversy still swirls around what exactly caused this conflagration. Were the Southron rebels motivated by anything other than slavery? Was the war about states' rights and the economic disparity between North and South?

This book compiles dozens of letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and the ordinances of secession of the Confederate states to illustrate the arguments on both sides, and to show the sequence of events that led to one of America's bloodiest wars.

Language: English

Pages: 326

Format: Kindle Edition

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