Okla-homey
12/20/2010, 08:10 AM
Dec 20, 1860: South Carolina secedes from the Union
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150 years ago today, South Carolina officially left the United States when a convention meeting in Columbia ratified an article of secession. South Carolina, was the the first state to secede. It did so because the population of SC was about 60% enslaved black, and SC had a higher percentage of slave owning families than other slave state. South Carolinians believed they had the most too lose if anti-slavery politicians came to power in the United States.
The political faction most aligned with the anti-slavery platform was the infant Republican party. When the Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected to the presidency in November of 1860, that tore it for South Carolinians once and for all.
Within a few weeks of this day in 1860, and before Lincoln's inauguration, six other slave states seceded and collectively formed the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama. When hostilities erupted in South Carolina in April of 1861, four more states joined the Confederacy.
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The seceding states left the Union with great celebration and tough talk. They found out, the hard way, they were wrong. By April of 1865, the so-called Confederate states were economically broken and smoking ruins.
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Please note, some folks, who for various reasons feel compelled to engage in revisionist history, will tell you secession was not mostly about a last-ditch attempt to preserve human chattel slavery. Those people are ignorant boors and you should ignore them and write them off as racist ignoramuses.
http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab7/Okla-homey/scteal.jpg
150 years ago today, South Carolina officially left the United States when a convention meeting in Columbia ratified an article of secession. South Carolina, was the the first state to secede. It did so because the population of SC was about 60% enslaved black, and SC had a higher percentage of slave owning families than other slave state. South Carolinians believed they had the most too lose if anti-slavery politicians came to power in the United States.
The political faction most aligned with the anti-slavery platform was the infant Republican party. When the Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected to the presidency in November of 1860, that tore it for South Carolinians once and for all.
Within a few weeks of this day in 1860, and before Lincoln's inauguration, six other slave states seceded and collectively formed the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama. When hostilities erupted in South Carolina in April of 1861, four more states joined the Confederacy.
http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab7/Okla-homey/scimages.jpg
The seceding states left the Union with great celebration and tough talk. They found out, the hard way, they were wrong. By April of 1865, the so-called Confederate states were economically broken and smoking ruins.
http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab7/Okla-homey/scmap1861.jpg
Please note, some folks, who for various reasons feel compelled to engage in revisionist history, will tell you secession was not mostly about a last-ditch attempt to preserve human chattel slavery. Those people are ignorant boors and you should ignore them and write them off as racist ignoramuses.