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Slavery and Secession in Arkansas: A Documentary History (The Civil War in the West)
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Paperback. Traces Arkansas's tortuous road to secession and war. Drawn from contemporary pamphlets, broadsides, legislative debates, public addresses, newspapers, and private correspondence, these accounts show the intricate twists and turns of the political drama in Arkansas between early 1859 and the summer of 1861. Editor(s): Gigantino, James J., II. Series: The Civil War in the West. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: HBTS; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
The absorbing documents collected in Slavery and Secession in Arkansastrace Arkansas’s tortuous road to secession and war. Drawn from contemporarypamphlets, broadsides, legislative debates, public addresses,newspapers, and private correspondence, these accounts show theintricate twists and turns of the political drama in Arkansas betweenearly 1859 and the summer of 1861. From an early warning of whatRepublican political dominance would mean for the South, through theinitial rejection of secession, to Arkansas’s final abandonment of theUnion, readers, even while knowing the eventual outcome, will find thejourney both suspenseful and informative.Revealing both the unique features of the secession story in Arkansasand the issues that Arkansas ... Read more
The absorbing documents collected in Slavery and Secession in Arkansastrace Arkansas’s tortuous road to secession and war. Drawn from contemporarypamphlets, broadsides, legislative debates, public addresses,newspapers, and private correspondence, these accounts show theintricate twists and turns of the political drama in Arkansas betweenearly 1859 and the summer of 1861. From an early warning of whatRepublican political dominance would mean for the South, through theinitial rejection of secession, to Arkansas’s final abandonment of theUnion, readers, even while knowing the eventual outcome, will find thejourney both suspenseful and informative.Revealing both the unique features of the secession story in Arkansasand the issues that Arkansas ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Series
The Civil War in the West
Number of Pages
195
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557286765
SKU
V9781557286765
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About
James J. Gigantino teaches in the history department at the Universityof Arkansas
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