5. Southern Secession

Questions:
1. How and why were Southern secessionists successful?
2. What threat did Lincoln’s election pose to the southern way of life?
3. How far did the secession impulse indicate support for a separate southern nation?

Bertram Wyatt Brown, “Honor and Secession,” from Yankee Saints and Southern Sinners (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985).
Steven A. Channing, “The Crisis”, from Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina (New York: Norton, 1970)
John McCardell, The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979)

Primary sources:
South Carolina Ordinance of Secession
Alexander Stephens speech extract
Speech of E.S. Dargan, in the Convention of Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861