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24 de may. de 2024 · See all 2 reviews. These books will certainly change your perspective of the events in the USA from 1861-1865. I bought and read these two books 25 years ago.
29 de may. de 2024 · The Confederate States of America consisted of 11 states: 7 original members and 4 states that seceded from the United States after the fall of Fort Sumter. Four border states held enslaved people but remained in the Union. West Virginia became the 24th loyal U.S. state in 1863. (more)
Hace 4 días · In his two-volume memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881), former Confederate president Jefferson Davis argued that slavery “was in no wise the cause of the conflict” and that slaves had been “contented with their lot.”
26 de may. de 2024 · Jefferson Davis. Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.
Hace 6 días · Book: Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. Stephanie McCurry. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780674045897; 456pp.; Price: £25.95. Reviewer: Dr Paul Quigley. University of Edinburgh. Citation:
Hace 1 día · Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens both wrote postwar arguments in favor of secession's legality and the international legitimacy of the Government of the Confederate States of America, most notably Davis' The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.
23 de may. de 2024 · Emancipation Proclamation, edict issued by U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, that freed the slaves of the Confederate states in rebellion against the Union. It took more than two years for news of the proclamation to reach the slaves in the distant state of Texas.
