Название: Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy
Автор: William L. Barney
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190076089
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 392
Размер: 6,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Regardless of whether they owned slaves, Southern whites lived in a world defined by slavery. As shown by their blaming British and Northern slave traders for saddling them with slavery, most were uncomfortable with the institution. While many wanted it ended, most were content to leave that up to God. All that changed with the election of Abraham Lincoln.