When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession

Using primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their political rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence when they seceded from the United States. Although conventional histories have taught generations of Americans that this was a war fought for lofty moral principles, Adams’ eloquent history transcends simple Southern partisanship to show how the American Civil War was primarily a battle over competing commercial interests, opposing interpretations of constitutional rights, and what English novelist Charles Dickens described as “a fiscal quarrel.”

Author: Charles Adams
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 02/01/2005
Pages: 257
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.98w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780847697236
Language: English