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Abolitionists

The Tarnished Tarheel

By John Marquardt

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1851 phantasmagorical image of slave life in the South has long been regarded as one of the sparks that ignited the War Between the States.  However, a now almost forgotten anti-slavery polemic… »

  • Abolitionists
  • Hinton Helper
  • John Marquardt
  • Slavery
  • War for Southern Independence

John Brown’s Body

By Neil Kumar

A Review of The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement (Uncommon Books, 1993) by Otto Scott. The Leftist political violence that has engulfed the disintegrating American nation for much of the past year… »

  • Abolitionists
  • John Brown
  • Neil Kumar
  • Northern Studies
  • War for Southern Independence

19th Century Fake News

By James (Jim) Pederson

While Fake News may be a new term, the concept has a long history.  We have been taught that a free, independent, and ethical press is essential for a free society to function and thrive;… »

  • Abolitionists
  • James Pederson
  • Northern Hate
  • Northern Studies
  • Political Correctness
  • War for Southern Independence

Franklin Pierce, Political Protest, & the Dilemmas of Democracy

By Michael J. Connolly

On the stump in New Boston, New Hampshire in early January 1852, Franklin Pierce gave a long oration during which free-soil hecklers forced him to address his ideas on slavery. “He was not in favor… »

  • Abolitionists
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Michael Connolly
  • United States Constitution
  • War for Southern Independence

Was the South Poor Before the War?

By William Cawthon

This essay was written in 1982 under the direction of Emory Thomas at the University of Georgia and was originally titled, “The Affluent Section: The South on the Eve of the War Between the States.”… »

  • Abolitionists
  • Slavery
  • Southern Economics
  • War for Southern Independence
  • William Cawthon

The Abolitionist Secessionist?

By Matt De Santi

“To live honestly is to hurt no one, and give to every one his due.”-Lysander Spooner Lysander Spooner was a Boston legal scholar and philosopher during the nineteenth century. What makes this man of Massachusetts… »

  • Abolitionists
  • Lysander Spooner
  • Secession
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • War for Southern Independence

The Plundering Generation

By Ludwell H. Johnson

This piece was originally published in Southern Partisan magazine in 1987-88. A few years ago I was shuffling through accumulated litter in my garage attic when I came across some clippings dating from the 1960s.… »

  • Abolitionists
  • Avery O. Craven
  • Edward Pollard
  • Kenneth Stampp
  • Ludwell H. Johnson
  • Slave Power
  • Slavery
  • Southern History
  • War for Southern Independence

The Cruel Winter of 1865 in South Carolina

By Karen Stokes

January 2015 ushers in the last year of the sesquicentennial of the War for Southern Independence. One hundred and fifty years ago, the first month of 1865 was the beginning of a cruel and catastrophic… »

  • Abolitionists
  • Karen Stokes
  • War Crimes
  • War for Southern Independence
  • William T. Sherman

Northern Resistance to Abolitionists

By Bernard Thuersam

Reprinted from Circa1865.com Anti-abolition sentiment was often found north of Mason and Dixon’s line and evidenced by incidents like the 1837 shooting death of abolitionist Elija Lovejoy in Alton, Ohio. The local citizenry tried to… »

  • Abolitionists
  • Bernard Thuersam

Steady Habits and Chivalry

By Clyde Wilson

The burden of our endeavour in this conference is to examine the great morality play of Northern Good versus Southern Evil that is the conventional history of anti-slavery in the United States. This convention dominates… »

  • Abolitionism
  • Abolitionists
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Jedidiah Morse
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Noah Webster
  • Slavery
  • Thomas Jefferson

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