Format:
1 online resource (446 pages)
ISBN:
9780807877340
Content:
IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists were cruel, meddling, and hypocritical. His personal journey led him through a series of mentors who transformed his political views, and upon moving to frontier Alabama in his twenties, Yancey's penchant for rhetorical and physical violence was soon channeled into a crusade to protect slaveholders' rights.Yancey defied Northern Democrats at their national nominating convention in 1860, rending the party and setting the stage for secession after the election of Abraham Lincoln. Selected to introduce Jefferson Davis in Montgomery as the president-elect of the Confederacy, Yancey also served the Confederacy as a diplomat and a senator before his death in 1863, just short of his forty-ninth birthday.More than a portrait of an influential political figure before and during the Civil War, this study also presents a nuanced look at the roots of Southern honor, violence, and understandings of manhood as they developed in the nineteenth century.
Content:
Cover Page -- WILLIAM LOWNDES YANCEY AND THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE Jordan's Stormy Banks -- CHAPTER TWO Rebellion and Union -- CHAPTER THREE Flush Times and Bad Times in Alabama and South Carolina -- CHAPTER FOUR Politician -- CHAPTER FIVE Party and Honor -- CHAPTER SIX The Alabama Platform -- CHAPTER SEVEN Secessionist -- CHAPTER EIGHT Creating the "Leaven of Disunion" -- CHAPTER NINE Public Man, Private Life -- CHAPTER TEN Yancey and the House Divided -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Walker and Walker, the League and the Letter -- CHAPTER TWELVE The Conventions of 1860 -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Voice of the South -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Men and the Hours -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN In King Arthur's Court -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Journeys Home -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Main Pillar of the Confederacy -- LEGACY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807830277
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780807830277
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=837902
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