Roots of Secession
Subtitle: Slavery and the Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: USA
Format: Softcover
Number of pages: 409
Copyright date: 2003
First sentence: In an address to the Franklin Society and Library Company of Lexington in 1847, Washington College president Henry Ruffner made the stunning proposal of ending slavery west of the Blue Ridge.