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The Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant

William W.  Freehling William W. Freehling

Speaker: William W. Freehling
Date: April 30, 2007
Time: 11:00 AM
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The Gordon and Mary Beth Smyth Forum on American History

William M. Freehling, in the second volume of his magisterial study of the South's road to disunion, explains how a secessionist minority in the lower South exploited sectional tensions to forge a majority for disunion. Freehling, a winner of both the Bancroft and Nevins prizes, is a fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

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