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.
A comprehensive study of secession in all fifteen slave states, Rebels in the Making is a political, social, and economic history of the late antebell...
