when in the course of human events: arguing the case for southern secession by charles adams

Was the cause of Southern secession economics or slavery?

A great read is "When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession" by Charles Adams. This is recent scholarship on an old and painful subject. It dispels many myths which I swallowed "whole cloth" in my school days, and which are deeply embedded in current "facts" about the causes, conduct and outcome of the war.

Was the south entitled to secede from the Union?

Oct 01, 2000 · WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS: ARGUING THE CASE FOR SOUTHERN SECESSION Charles Adams Rowman and Littlefield, 2000; xiv + 257 pgs. Charles Adams manifests in this excellent book a rare talent-he asks intelligent historical questions. Many today portray the Civil War as a struggle to end slavery. Given the manifest injustice of Negro slavery, …

What was John Adams’s argument in the declaration of Independence?

According to Charles Adams in his book When In the Course of Human Events, the South was well within their rights to secede from the union of independent states one century, two score and one decade ago. And he is not alone. At least not alone when it comes to 19th century thought.

How did the Confederate States of America secede?

When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession. When in the Course of Human Events. : Using primary documents from …

Mises Review 6, No. 3 (Fall 2000)

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Gordon, David. "Adams's Stunning Achievement." Review of When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession, by Charles Adams. The Mises Review 6, No. 3 (Fall 2000).

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This book has a not-new thesis, beloved by Marxists and Charles Beard: that economic reasons were the real driver behind the Civil War. Actually, Charles Adams tells us that only one economic reason was the sole driver—increased tariffs dictated by the North.

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From Adams (Those Dirty Rotten Taxes, 1998), a selectively argued, sometimes absurd polemic against Abraham Lincoln and the Union. Abraham Lincoln assumed in the Second Inaugural Address that his ... Read full review

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Overview

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." With these words, thirteen of the British colonies in North America unanimously declared independence from British rule.

About the Author

Charles Adams, the world's leading scholar on the history of taxation, is the author of the best selling books For Good and Evil, Those Dirty Rotten Taxes, and Fight, Flight, and Fraud.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 The Dangerous Road to Secession Chapter 3 2 A Useless Fort? Chapter 4 3 Lincoln Crosses the Rubicon Chapter 5 4 Whose War Was It, Anyway? Chapter 6 5 The British Press Views the War Chapter 7 6 British Scholars Speak Chapter 8 7 How British Cartoonists Saw the War Chapter 9 8 A Just War? Chapter 10 9 Negrophobia Chapter 11 10 The Ku Klux Klan Chapter 12 11The Peacemakers Chapter 13 12 The Trial of the Century That Never Was Chapter 14 13 Lincoln's Logic Chapter 15 14 The High Ground Chapter 16 15 Reflections: Healing the Breach.

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Having read 'The Real Lincoln' by Thomas di Lorenzo I decided to read this book which was in his bibliography. Very interesting. I'm not American, but it seems that Lincoln really was not a hero of democracy etc. The opposite.