By Hunter Wallace 1

The Road to Disunion

The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861William W. FreehlingNew York: Oxford University PressIn his second volume of The Road to Disunion, William W. Freehling explores the climax of the secessionist movement in the American South. Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 takes the reader from the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which reignited anti-slavery controversy...