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2 giorni fa · Davis's first book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, was published in 1881. The book was intended as a vindication of Davis's actions during the war and an argument for the righteousness of secession, though it downplayed slavery's role as a cause of the war.
10 giu 2024 · So, as Jefferson Davis explained in his Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, “slavery was the lightning, but it was not the storm.” Or, to quote another unimpeachable authority often cited in justification of the War, “What further need have we of witnesses?
1 giorno fa · Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens both wrote postwar arguments in favor of secession's legality and the international legitimacy of the Government of the Confederate States of America, most notably Davis' The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.
23 giu 2024 · Confederate States of America, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, following the election of Abraham Lincoln as U.S. president, prompting the American Civil War (1861–65). The Confederacy acted as a separate government until defeated in the spring of 1865.
2 giorni fa · A mass rally in Chicago on September 7, 1862, demanded immediate and universal emancipation of slaves. A delegation headed by William W. Patton met the president at the White House on September 13. Lincoln had declared in peacetime that he had no constitutional authority to free the slaves.
24 giu 2024 · Confederate Reckoning is a ‘political history of the unfranchised’ (p. 7). It joins a significant body of scholarship that has sought to expand the category of ‘the political’ by taking into account the behaviour and ideas of those who, in formal terms, were excluded from politics.
