…ict did not begin primarily over slavery but over South Carolina’s response to Abraham Lincoln’s election.
The speaker claims that Lincoln’s absence from …
…toral voice. He presents this as the catalyst for South Carolina’s secession and quotes an 1860 Charleston Mercury article calling for the “ball of revolu…
…e state withdrawing from the union that state was South Carolina South Carolina got together and decided to remove themselves as a matter of
aves ever th…