Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861

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For those who may be interested in this, I still can't find a publication date, but the (intriguing) article below about an October reading from his upcoming book would seem to indicate (if he's doing readings?) that it is not long before it will become available.



WILLIAM W. FREEHLING, “DID A GREAT SLAVE POWER CONSPIRACY HELP CAUSE DISUNION IN 1860-1861?”
Tuesday, October 21, 3:30 -l 5:30 pm, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 145 Ednam Drive.

Freehling joins us from the University of Kentucky to discuss the climactic chapters of his book, _Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861_. (The first volume, _Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854_, was published in 1990). The book includes the controversial contention that a very real conspiracy in 1860-1861 had something to do with producing disunion. Historians usually agree that pre-Civil War Northerners believed that the slaveholders had controlled the Union's government for many years by deploying conspiratorial manipulation. Historians also usually agree that this Yankee belief in a so-called Great Slave Power Conspiracy helped produce Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860. Freehling's argument that such a conspiracy truly did exist, albeit only at the moment of revolution, will raise eyebrows among professional historians, who for decades have called such a conspiracy merely the figment of Northern imaginations, and among Southern lay people, who usually want to believe that the Southern majority eagerly embraced disunion, and without conspiratorial manipulations forcing their hand. For directions or other information, call 434-243-5526 or e-mail [email protected].

From:

http://www.virginia.edu/americanstudies/html/2003-2004%20Newsletters/AS10-15-03.htm


(12 CW books arrived in the mail today! Huzzah!)
 
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