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

Author/Contributor(s):	Barney, William L
Publisher:	Oxford Univ PR
Date:	08/03/2020
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.