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Book John Archibald Campbell

Download or read book John Archibald Campbell written by Robert Saunders and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full biography of the southern U.S. Supreme Court justice who championed both the U.S. Constitution and states’ rights The life of John Archibald Campbell reflects nearly every major development of 19th-century American history. He participated either directly or indirectly in events ranging from the Indian removal process of the 1830s, to sectionalism and the Civil War, to Reconstruction and redemption. Although not a defender of slavery, he feared that abrupt abolition would produce severe economic and social dislocation. He urged southerners to reform their labor system and to prepare for the eventual abolition of slavery. In the early 1850s he proposed a series of reforms to strengthen slave families and to educate the slaves to prepare them for assimilation into society as productive citizens. These views distinguished him from many southerners who steadfastly maintained the sanctity of the peculiar institution. Born and schooled in Georgia, Campbell moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the early 1830s, where he joined a successful law practice. He served in the Alabama legislature for a brief period and then moved with his family to Mobile to establish a law practice. In 1853 Campbell was appointed an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His concurring opinion in the Dred Scott case in 1857 derived not from the standpoint of protecting slavery but from an attempt to return political power to the states. As the sectional crisis gathered heat, Campbell counseled moderation. He became widely detested in the North because of his defense of states’ rights, and he was distrusted in the South because of his moderate views on slavery and secession. In May 1861 Campbell resigned from the Court and later became the Confederacy's assistant secretary of war. After the war, Campbell moved his law practice to New Orleans. Upon his death in 1889, memorial speakers in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans recognized him as one of the nation's most gifted lawyers and praised his vast learning and mastery of both the common law and the civil law. In this first full biography of Campbell, Robert Saunders, Jr., reveals the prevalence of anti-secession views prior to the Civil War and covers both the judicial aspects and the political history of this crucial period in southern history.

Book The South Atlantic Quarterly

Download or read book The South Atlantic Quarterly written by John Spencer Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society written by American Antiquarian Society and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Counterrevolution of Slavery

Download or read book The Counterrevolution of Slavery written by Manisha Sinha and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery. Sinha discusses some of the major sectional crises of the antebellum era--including nullification, the conflict over the expansion of slavery into western territories, and secession--and offers an important reevaluation of the movement to reopen the African slave trade in the 1850s. In the process she reveals the central role played by South Carolina planter politicians in developing proslavery ideology and the use of states' rights and constitutional theory for the defense of slavery. Sinha's work underscores the necessity of integrating the history of slavery with the traditional narrative of southern politics. Only by taking into account the political importance of slavery, she insists, can we arrive at a complete understanding of southern politics and the enormity of the issues confronting both northerners and southerners on the eve of the Civil War.

Book Langdon Cheves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth K. Lindquist
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Langdon Cheves written by Elizabeth K. Lindquist and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tennessee Historical Magazine

Download or read book Tennessee Historical Magazine written by John Hibbert De Witt and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tennessee Historical Magazine

Download or read book Tennessee Historical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the American Historical Association

Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Secession Movement in South Carolina  1847 1852

Download or read book The Secession Movement in South Carolina 1847 1852 written by Philip May Hamer and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nashville Convention

Download or read book The Nashville Convention written by Thelma Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Warrior at Heart

Download or read book Warrior at Heart written by John Adams and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Milton-a true son of the South- endeavored to find ways in which to keep Florida relevant to the Confederate cause. Under Milton, Florida was a key contributor of supplies for the Confederate Army. supplies. By pledging men, beef, and salt among other supplies, Milton gave credence to Florida's war effort. However, poor strategizing, blockades, and lack of military might led to several failed attempts to overcome the Union armies infiltrating the Florida coast. Left to defend themselves from the enemy with little help from their Confederate compatriots, Floridians grew increasingly disenchanted with their government's dismissive attitude. Over the course of the war, they were caught between survival and secession. With little resources remaining, survival was the only way for the state to maintain itself. Left disillusioned, the embattled Milton took matters into his own hands, refusing to submit to the impending surrender secession and the ignominy of defeat. Warrior at Heart is an in-depth study of Florida's Southern history during the Civil War. Historian John Adams gives detailed analyses of not only the economic dynamics reasons for the South to wage war, but also the events that shaped John Milton's role in the war effort....

Book Andrew Jackson Donelson

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  • Author : Richard Douglas Spence
  • Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
  • Release : 2017-10-02
  • ISBN : 0826521657
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Andrew Jackson Donelson written by Richard Douglas Spence and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly detailed biography of Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) sheds new light on the political and personal life of this nephew and namesake of Andrew Jackson. A scion of a pioneering Tennessee family, Donelson was a valued assistant and trusted confidant of the man who defined the Age of Jackson. One of those central but background figures of history, Donelson had a knack for being where important events were happening and knew many of the great figures of the age. As his uncle's secretary, he weathered Old Hickory's tumultuous presidency, including the notorious "Petticoat War." Building his own political career, he served as US chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas, where he struggled against an enigmatic President Sam Houston, British and French intrigues, and the threat of war by Mexico, to achieve annexation. As minister to Prussia, Donelson enjoyed a ringside seat to the revolutions of 1848 and the first attempts at German unification. A firm Unionist in the mold of his uncle, Donelson denounced the secessionists at the Nashville Convention of 1850. He attempted as editor of the Washington Union to reunite the Democratic party, and, when he failed, he was nominated as Millard Fillmore's vice-presidential running mate on the Know-Nothing party ticket in 1856. He lived to see the Civil War wreck the Union he loved, devastate his farms, and take the lives of two of his sons.

Book Studies

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  • Author : University of Georgia
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Studies written by University of Georgia and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the United States

Download or read book A History of the United States written by Edward Channing and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Watson s Jeffersonian Magazine

Download or read book Watson s Jeffersonian Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University Lectures Delivered by Members of the Faculty in the Free Public Lecture Course

Download or read book University Lectures Delivered by Members of the Faculty in the Free Public Lecture Course written by University of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: