In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates to the Deep South slaveholding states’ convention work in earnest to establish the legal and judicial basis of the new Confederate States of America, as well as to select a president for the new nation. The preservation of African (black) slavery is foundational and central to the identity of the Confederacy.…
The Confederate States’ convention continues today in Montgomery, Alabama, as delegates work on establishing the legal principles that will under gird the new nation. In Georgia, the Milledgeville Southern Federal Union publishes Georgia’s causes of secession, as approved by the state’s secession convention on January 29. The preservation of African (black) slavery is identified as…
Sam Houston’s delaying tactics have failed. The Union sentiments of the Baptist governor of Texas are not represented among Texas politicians at large. As Houston watches with disapproval, Texas secession delegates pass an ordinance of secession, as follows: Whereas, the Federal Government has failed to accomplish the purposes of the compact of union between these…