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      Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-1869

      Daniel W. Crofts

      Nat Turner’s 1831 slave insurrection made Virginia’s Southampton County notorious. Old Southampton links local and national history. It explains how partisan loyalties developed, how white democracy flourished in the late…

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      Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-69

      Daniel W. Crofts

      This deft combination of political and social history is must reading for anyone interested in the Old South and the Civil War era.

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      Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis

      Daniel W. Crofts

      Daniel Crofts examines Unionists in three pivotal southern states - Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee - and shows why the outbreak of the war enabled the Confederacy to gain the…

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      A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and The Diary of a Public Man

      Daniel W. Crofts

      The Diary of a Public Man, published anonymously in 1879, claimed to offer accounts of secret conversations with Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Stephen A. Douglas in the weeks…

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      Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union

      Daniel W. Crofts

      In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln’s life: his role as the Great Emancipator . Crofts argues that Lincoln…

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      Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis

      David M. Potter,Daniel W. Crofts

      Originally published in 1942, this perceptive and impartial analysis of one of the most baffling periods in American history, the months between the election of Lincoln and the fall of…

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      Cobb’s Ordeal: The Diaries of a Virginia Farmer, 1842-1872

      This is the 30-year diary of Daniel W. Cobb, a small slaveholder from Virginia’s rural tidewater. The intimate account illuminates the momentous impact of the Civil War and emancipation, and…

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