South Carolina Secession Documents

Kenneth Almquist

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Apr 25, 2014
The South Carolina secession convention produced two documents attempting to justify it's decision to secede from the Union: a Declaration of Causes and an Address to the Slaveholding States. The purpose of this thread is to discuss those documents.

The next four postings will contain South Carolina's Ordinance declaring independence, its Declaration of Causes, its Address to the Slaveholding States, and the results of South Carolina's 1852 convention. I've added a few annotations in brown, including adding paragraph numbers to the longer documents for easy reference. After those four posts, I will begin my discussion of the Declaration of Causes.
 
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