Abstract
The South played a prominent role in early American history, and its position was certainly strong and proud except for the “peculiar institution” of slavery. Thus, it drew away from the rest of an expanding nation, and in 1861 declared secession and developed a Confederacy… that ultimately lost the war. Indeed, for some time it was occupied. Thus, the South has a very mixed legacy, with good and bad aspects, and sometimes the two of them mixed. Which only enhances the need for a careful and balanced approach.
This can be found in the Historical Dictionary of the Old South, which first traces its history from colonial times to the end of the Civil War in a substantial chronology. Particularly interesting is the introduction, which analyzes the rise and the fall, the good and the bad, as well as the middling and indifferent, over nigh on two centuries. The details are filled in very amply in over 600 dictionary entries on the politics, economy, society and culture of the Old South. An ample bibliography directs students and researchers toward other sources of information.
Schlagworte
Secession Civil War- 1–422 Introduction 1–422
- 475–562 Bibliography 475–562
- 563–564 About the Author 563–564
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- „... states’-rights sort of way. He hoped that the continued debate would move the law’s original congressional ...” „... law.The chivalry claimed that the South had yielded too much in the Compro-mise. Meeting at the Nashville ...” „... become a nation in its own right, with its own pro-slave fundamental law. The first theory was called ...”
- „... to law.Section 4The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Repre-sentatives ...” „... Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.Every order ...” „... all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and ...”
- „... law.Section IV1. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be ...” „... laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the Confederate States; but no law of Congress shall ...” „... , or law-fully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be ...”
- „... , Southern Slavery and the Law; Alan Wat-son, Slave Law in the Americas; Mark V. Tushnet, The American Law of ...” „... actual laws are provided in the treatises by John Codman Hurd, The Law of Freedom and Bondage; Thomas R ...” „... Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1996.Hofstadter, Richard ...”
- „... rules for deciding in all cases, what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner ...” „... exercised in the manner following. Whenever the legislative or executive authority or lawful agent of any ...” „... by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint by joint consent commissioners or ...”