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- Title
The Causes of the American Civil War.
- Authors
Cunliffe, Marcus
- Abstract
The article explores the causes and historiography of the American Civil War. The author notes the election of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln led to Confederate forces firing upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina and the secession of the eleven Southern States that formed the Southern Confederacy. Other causes considered include abolitionist literature such as the periodical "Liberator" edited by William Lloyd Garrison and the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the pro-slavery philosophies of politician John Caldwell Calhoun and social theorist George Fitzhugh, and the extension of slavery into the Western states.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; CONFEDERATE States of America; UNITED States; CAUSES of the American Civil War, 1861-1865; HISTORIOGRAPHY of the American Civil War, 1861-1865; SECESSION of the Southern United States; ANTISLAVERY movements; JUSTIFICATION of slavery; LINCOLN, Abraham, 1809-1865; ANTEBELLUM Period (U.S.)
- Publication
History Today, 1953, Vol 3, Issue 11, p753
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article