Apostles of Disunion

Apostles of Disunion
Author: Charles B. Dew
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2017-02-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813939453

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 fifteen 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.

Letter from the Commissioners of the City of Washington to the President of the United States

Letter from the Commissioners of the City of Washington to the President of the United States
Author: Washington City Commissioners
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2016-06-27
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781332989645

Excerpt from Letter From the Commissioners of the City of Washington to the President of the United States: With an Account of the Present State of the Public Buildings in That City; Accompanying a Message From the President of the United States, Received the 5th December,1799 Q, bucotm w 58 flaw $3 9' 30a 3532 mun'wccsfiucfi Eco flaw vookw 50 mo bomb; on £08; 6o ftc x33 to? $3923 MO 8522. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.