Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy

ISBN-13: 9780190076085 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 392 str.

William L. Barney

Opis

A comprehensive study of secession in all fifteen slave states, Rebels in the Making is a political, social, and economic history of the late antebellum South that examines the appeal of secession to a variety of actors in these states and reveals it to be not a mass democratic movement but a revolution led from above.

Recenzje

A fitting capstone to five decades of research and writing about secession, William A. Barney's Rebels in the Making shows us how cadres of radical proslavery ideologues manipulated other Southern whites into supporting secession. But the joke was on those all-too-familiar propagandists of anti-egalitarian amorality. They convinced themselves and other enslavers to do the one simple thing that no slaveholding elite could afford to do: invite an army of invaders onto the doorstep of their police state.

O autorze

William L. Barney is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War (OUP, 2011); The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir's Civil War (OUP, 2007); and The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860, among other titles.