The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

Virginia Secession Convention: “Resolution 2: African slavery is a vital part of the social system of the States wherein it exists … any interference to its prejudice by the federal authority ...

Thomas Carmody Jr., the bill’s sponsor, “said he believes in secession and that the Civil War was not fought by the Confederacy to protect slavery.” Carmody is incorrect. In the fall of 1860 ...

The Confederate battle flag became the rallying symbol of that secession. The Civil War ended in 1865. Slavery as an institution ended, but the subjugation of African Americans continued for ...

Here's the text of the letter to the president ... cause of the Confederate soldier, the neo-Confederate cause of their descendants, and defends secession in his speech as follows: At this ...

Southerners fought the Civil War, in part, for “states rights" as well as holding people in bondage. President Lincoln believed he ended the “theory” at Appomattox with the surrender of the ...

Nikki Haley defended states’ rights to secede from the United States, South Carolina’s Confederate History ... When asked about secession, Haley said that while she believed under the ...

In his Dec. 10 letter, Daniel Mead states ... derived from primary sources such as the Confederate Constitution, firsthand reporting on the Florida Secession Convention and contemporaneous ...

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians ... the "smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of secession." It was too remote and sparsely ...