Apostles of Disunion, written by Charles B. Dew, is a book that focuses on the topics of Slavery, States’ rights, and Secession. The introduction chapter of the book talks about how Dew grew up as a “son of the south”, and how his ancestors fought for the confederacy. He talks about how he went to school in Virginia and he packed his Confederate flag to hang on his wall. Dew says that he didn’t think much about secession, however, he knew that the south had seceded for the lonely reason of states’ rights.
The book that I read was the Apostles of Disunion by Charles B. Dew. This book explains the action of secession commissioners who were given the assignment to travel throughout the South and to other slave states in the years 1860 and 1861. Eventually, their efforts were for not because those men were found guilty of recruiting people to follow secessionary ideals as well as supporting secessionary ideals. I think Dew is trying to get his main point across that people are mistaken if they think that the preservation of slavery in the south was not the primary ideal that lead to the secession and Civil War. I think that he tries to explain through most of the information given to us that states rights may have sparked the secession and civil war but it
Some Southerners believed that they needed to secede from the nation because they believed Abraham Lincoln, and his Republican majority were a major threat to the institution of slavery. The new Republican Party showed up in the 1850s and they were against the institution of slavery. When the election of 1860 came about, one of the candidates was Abraham Lincoln who just so happened to be a republican. When he won the election alongside his commanding majorities in both houses of Congress, the Southern states panicked, and got afraid that the federal government would stop the continuation of the practice of slavery. In other words, they were afraid that they were going to abolish slavery in the South, which they believed was going to be a problem
Most people don't know for sure why the American Civil War came to be. However, one theory that repeatedly comes up is the issue of slavery and whether it was just or wrong in America the land of the freedom throughout history and discussions. Charles B. Dew the author of, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and The Cause of The Civil War, claims to be a southerner himself and explains his thoughts and education growing up in the south. In his youth, he was taught by his family that the reason the South went to war was to fight for their State’s rights, but as an adult, he explains that it may not have been the only reason they fought after researching for himself.
Well, that is because they lost the war and had to give up their way of life (the southerners), which made them very angry because they could not do anything about it, so they did what they thought would be
In the South, all people wanted to keep the slaves. There were Southern land owners who wanted the labor of the slaves. They wanted to fight so they can settle their differences.
There was a lot of rebellions against the slavery process. The south was terrified because of the slaveholders. The main slaveholder was Nat Turner and he had 75 black people and 60 white people and he got that in two days so the other slaveholders were terrified. They finally hated Turners Rebellion. He said he didn’t discipline them and then they figured out he did.
In the early 1860’s the Southern states seceded from the Union due to the uproar of disputes over, slavery in the territories, the Northern abolitionists growth in power and the
Southerners believed that the U.S. was made for and by the white race, and that the Africans had no part of their establishment. They believed that slaves were justified by the “..experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the almighty creator.” (Document B.) They did not want to give up their businesses or their beliefs too soon therefore, they
Slavery in the North had died out while cotton had begin to prosper in the South with a new invention making cotton easier to grow. Southerners grew more defensive of the slave constitution with strongly having the idea that African Americans couldn’t fend for themselves. Southerners feared open rebellion but this was rare. “However, slaves would pretend illness, organize slowdowns, sabotage farm machinery, and sometimes commit arson or murder. Running away, usually for short periods of time, was common.”
When looking at why the South seceded we must first admit and recognize that is was very much a multi layered issue without a clear answer as to what was the reason the south seceded as there were so many factors. However, while most people believe that the south seceded because of slavery; while in fact, it was influenced more so by sectionalism and events by radicals such as Bleeding Kansas; therefore, southern secession was in fact not mainly over the issue of slavery, but rather over more complex internal issues the nation was seeing from sectionalism. We first have to remember the differences between the North and the South just as societies as well in terms of sectionalism. The societies of these 2 sections of the United States were vastly different. Economically there was competition between the 2 which led to competition for political policies to favor one or the other, which could’ve been compromised but wasn’t.
Why? Well, the South had a traditional way of thinking, whereas the Northerners were considered more progressive thinkers. The South wanted to hold on to the way of life that the North was trying to
The southerners were angry because “it implied that the mere proximity of slavery was degrading and that white southerners were therefore a degraded people, unfit to join other Americans in the territories
They wanted to hold onto what they saw as their authority to make decisions regarding trade as individual states. A right they felt was theirs as they were no longer under English rule, and were willing to seceed over. While the North wanted to keep the Democracy that they had fought so fiercely for from England. But the greatest issue between the North and South was about the human rights of the African American
‘Slavery was the root cause of secession’. ‘November 6 1860, Lincoln was elected president of America which resulted in panic emerging in the South’ . The election of Lincoln as president who was a Republican leader meant that ideologies, movements and values from the North would be implemented in the South which meant the abolition of slavery. Slavery was a huge characteristic of the South as the economy; politics; social status and psychological mind-sets were influenced by the process of slavery. The southern white population then derived the idea of secession which meant the South would gain independence from Northern aggression .
