Virginia’s Attitude Towards Slavery and Secession (1909)
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Virginia’s Attitude Towards Slavery and Secession (1909)
by Beverly Munford
8 x 5 ¼. In English. Published by L.H. Jenkins, Virginia, 1909. New Edition. Complete. A very scarce, early edition. Binding tight and secure. Very clean text block. In very good overall condition.
This work was designed as a contribution to the volume of information from which a historian can prepare an impartial and comprehensive narrative of the American Civil War. No attempt has been made to present the causes, which precipitated the secession of the Cotton States, nor the states, which subsequently adopted the same policy, except Virginia. Even in regard to that commonwealth the effort has been limited to the consideration of two features prominent in the public mind as constituting the most potent factors in determining her action—namely, devotion to slavery and hostility to the Union. That the people of Virginia were moved to secession by a selfish desire to extend or maintain the institution of slavery, or from hostility to the Union, are propositions seemingly at variance with their whole history and the interests which might naturally have controlled them in the hour of separation.
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