John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader (Southern Biography Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (554 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807112070 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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. May is associate professor of history at Purdue University and the author of The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854--1861. Robert E
A Superb Biography of a Southern Nationalist Roger D. Launius A superb biography, "John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader" tells the story of one of the most significant of the southern "fire eaters" in the era prior to the Civil War. Born in Rhinebeck, New York, in 1798, in 1821 Quitman arrived in Natchez, Mississippi, seeking fame and for. "John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader" according to Gingerscott. I will keep this book for life. I did find some misleading information but moreover, the truth overrode the mistakes. However, I wish it was possible to make the corrections providing the book more validly as a nonfiction book.
From the Back Cover The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Later, in Congress, he marked out an extreme southern position on Kansas. Quitman was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the entire South. A fervent disciple of South Carolina "radical" John C. He articulated the case for new slave territory, participated in the Texas Revolution, won national acclaim as a volunteer general in the Mexican war, and organized a private military or "filibustering" expedition with the intent of liberating Cuba from Spanish rule and making the island a new slave state. Mississippi's most vehement "fire-eater", Quitman played a significant role in the North-South estrangement that led to the American Civil War. In 1850,
The first critical biography of Quitman, May's study sheds light on such current historical controversies as whether antebellum southerners were particuliarly militaristic or "antibourgeois" and helps illuminate the slave-master relations, mobility, intraregional class and geographic friction, partisan politics, and family customs of the Old South.