Slave State power in Senate/Amendments

[elektratig]

Ole (and others who might be interested),

Since the horse is dead, it does no harm to keep beating it.

Here's Michael Holt on Mills Thornton (1978):

"Special mention should be made . . . of J. Mills Thornton's brilliant dissertation, 'Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama 1808 to 1860' (Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1974). It has influenced virtually everything I have written about Southern ideology and Southern politics. By proving that the battle to preserve self-government, freedom, and equality was the crux of Alabama's politics from territorial days until secession, Thornton has written the finest study of antebellum politics in a Southern state that I know of. Happily, it will soon be published . . ..

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"My own interpretation of the secessionist impulse has been influenced most heavily by Thornton's study of Alabama. In effect, I have tried to extend his ideas to the rest of the South. . . ."

The Political Crisis of the 1850s at 263, 279 (bibliographical essay).

[unionblue]

To All,

Thought this was the best thread for this.

Database of U.S. and Confederate Senators.

http://home.earthlink.net/~dbratman/senate.html

Be sure and check out the links the article lists below. Some of them are very interesting. Especially the Psephos site.

Good research site.

Sincerely,
Unionblue