Description
The South Carolina Upcountry was a region in the South that was known for its Republicanism. It was also a region that was known for its cotton production. This region was also a region that was known for its radicalism. This radicalism was pro-slavery. The white majority of the South supported the secession movement that led to the American Civil War.
In the sixty years before the American Civil War, the South Carolina Upcountry evolved from an isolated subsistence region that served as a stronghold of Jeffersonian Republicanism into a mature cotton-producing region with a burgeoning commercial sector that served as a hotbed of Southern radicalism. This groundbreaking study examines this startling evolution, tracing the growth, logic, and strategy of pro-slavery radicalism and the circumstances and values of white society and politics to analyze why the white majority of the Old South ultimately supported the secession movement that led to bloody civil war.
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