The Secession Movement in Alabama (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Clarence Phillips Denman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0656175990 ISBN 13: 9780656175994

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2022

Synopsis

A focused look at how Alabama moved toward secession and what it took to shape the state’s course.

The book traces the secession movement in Alabama from the Wilmot Proviso era to the Ordinance of Secession, highlighting the larger North-South conflict that shaped the state’s choices. It explains how Alabama debated unity, secession, and the push for a Southern convention, with attention to the different groups and their aims during 1860.

In careful detail, it examines the Alabama Platform, the rise of Cooperationists and straight-outs, and the debates that surrounded calling a convention and voting on secession. The work situates Alabama’s path within national events, showing how state leaders, local factions, and public sentiment interacted as the Union faced peril.

• Understand the key events that pushed Alabama toward secession
• Learn how different political groups framed their demands and strategies
• See the links between state debates and national moments in 1860
• Explore how the Ordinance of Secession was discussed, adopted, and received

Ideal for readers of Civil War-era Southern political history and state-level narratives of secession.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0656175990
• ISBN 13: 9780656175994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214