WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS: ARGUING THE CASE FOR SOUTHERN SECESSION#N#Charles Adams#N#Rowman and Littlefield, 2000; xiv + 257 pgs.
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).
"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.
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.
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.
"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.
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#N#show more.
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.#N#show more
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From Adams ( Those Dirty Rotten Taxes, 1998), a selectively argued, sometimes absurd polemic against Abraham Lincoln and the Union.
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