| The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 Contributor(s): Barney, William L. (Introduction by), Barney, William L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0817350896 ISBN-13: 9780817350895 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: 973.713 |
| LCCN: 2003016915 |
| Series: Library of Alabama Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.56" W x 9.06" (1.10 lbs) 371 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Alabama - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is an outline of the economic crisis in the South based on the declining yields, increasing class stratification and higher slave prices. It supplies data on the property holdings and occupations of the elected representatives and finds the secessionists to be young, probably lawyers who were both ambitious and confident. Because the economic dislocation of the 1850s made people receptive to a rhetoric that emphasized conspiratorial abolitionists and almost paranoid fear of blacks and strangers, the politicians were able to persuade their constituents that a real crisis did exist and that secession was the only remedy. |