Title: When in the course of human events : arguing the case for southern secession /
Authors: Adams, Charles, 1930-
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Taxation United States History; Public opinion Great Britain History; United States History Causes.; United States History Economic aspects.; United States Politics and government; United States History Foreign public opinion, British.
Abstract: Adams uses documents from foreign (primarily British) and domestic observers to state that the South was exercising the rights laid out in the Declaration of Independence against a fiscally-quarrelsome and commercial North, rather than maintaining lofty moral principles of slavery.
Contents: The dangerous road to secession -- A useless fort? -- Lincoln crosses the rubicon -- Whose war was it, anyway? -- The british press views the war -- British scholars speak -- How Bristish cartoonists saw the war -- A just war? -- Negrophobia -- The Ku Klux Klan -- The peacemakers -- The trial of the century that never was -- Lincoln's Logic -- The high ground -- Reflections: healing the breach.