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  • Apostles of Disunion

  • Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
  • By: Charles B. Dew
  • Narrated by: Mitchell Dorian
  • Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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By: Charles B. Dew
Narrated by: Mitchell Dorian
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Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis. The 15 years since the original publication of Apostles of Disunion have seen an intensification of debates surrounding the Confederate flag and Civil War monuments. In a powerful new afterword to this anniversary edition, Dew situates the book in relation to these recent controversies and factors in the role of vast financial interests tied to the internal slave trade in pushing Virginia and other upper South states toward secession and war.

©2016 The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (P)2020 Upfront Books
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The causes of southern secession

This is a short but I think important work piece of scholarship on the arguments the south deployed on behalf of secession. The author cuts away all the post war revisionism and lost cause mythology. This is the true voice of southern secessionists talking to each other in clear and unmistakable fashion. I consider this an essential piece of history that people should know about. Essential

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Wonderful document

This is not much a book as a great historical document, one which dismissively lays to waste any notion that the CW was not about slavery and its underpinning ideological justification of white supremacy. A concise masterpiece.

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