When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession

Using primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their political rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence when they seceded from the United States. Although conventional histories have taught generations of Americans that this was a war fought for lofty moral principles, Adams' eloquent history transcends simple Southern partisanship to show how the American Civil War was primarily a battle over competing commercial interests, opposing interpretations of constitutional rights, and what English novelist Charles Dickens described as "a fiscal quarrel."

ISBN-13: 9780847697236

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - Inc.

Publication Date: 12-23-2004

Pages: 278

Product Dimensions: 5.94(w) x 8.92(h) x 0.63(d)

Charles Adams, the world's leading scholar on the history of taxation, is the author of the best selling books For Good and Evil, Those Dirty Rotten Taxes, and Fight, Flight, and Fraud.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 The Dangerous Road to Secession Chapter 3 2 A Useless Fort? Chapter 4 3 Lincoln Crosses the Rubicon Chapter 5 4 Whose War Was It, Anyway? Chapter 6 5 The British Press Views the War Chapter 7 6 British Scholars Speak Chapter 8 7 How British Cartoonists Saw the War Chapter 9 8 A Just War? Chapter 10 9 Negrophobia Chapter 11 10 The Ku Klux Klan Chapter 12 11The Peacemakers Chapter 13 12 The Trial of the Century That Never Was Chapter 14 13 Lincoln's Logic Chapter 15 14 The High Ground Chapter 16 15 Reflections: Healing the Breach