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- catalog abstract "The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Quitman was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the entire South. In this full-length biography, Robert E. May takes issue with the recent tendency to portray secessionists as rabble-rousing, maladjusted outsiders bent on the glories of separate nationhood. May reveals Quitman to have been an ambitious but relatively stable insider who reluctantly advocated secession because of a despondency over slavery's long-range future in the union and the related conviction that Northerners no longer respected Southern claims to equality as American citizens. A fervent disciple of South Carolina "radical" John C. Calhoun's nullification theories, Quitman also gained notoriety as his region's most strident slavery imperialist. 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. In 1850, while governor of Mississippi during the California crisis, Quitman wielded his influence in a vain attempt to induce Mississippi secession. Later, in Congress, he marked out an extreme southern position on Kansas. Mississippi's most vehement "fire-eater," Quitman played a significant role in the North-South estrangement that led to the American Civil War. The first critical biography of this important figure, May's study sheds light on such current historical controversies as whether antebellum Southerners were peculiarly militaristic or "anti-bourgeois" and helps illuminate the slave-master relations, mobility, intraregional class and geographic friction, partisan politics, and family customs of the old South. - Back cover.".
- catalog contributor b307955.
- catalog coverage "Mississippi Politics and government To 1865.".
- catalog created "c1985.".
- catalog date "1985".
- catalog date "c1985.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1985.".
- catalog description ""Bibliographical essay": p. 357-362.".
- catalog description "The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Quitman was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the entire South. In this full-length biography, Robert E. May takes issue with the recent tendency to portray secessionists as rabble-rousing, maladjusted outsiders bent on the glories of separate nationhood. May reveals Quitman to have been an ambitious but relatively stable insider who reluctantly advocated secession because of a despondency over slavery's long-range future in the union and the related conviction that Northerners no longer respected Southern claims to equality as American citizens. A fervent disciple of South Carolina "radical" John C. Calhoun's nullification theories, Quitman also gained notoriety as his region's most strident slavery imperialist. 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. In 1850, while governor of Mississippi during the California crisis, Quitman wielded his influence in a vain attempt to induce Mississippi secession. Later, in Congress, he marked out an extreme southern position on Kansas. Mississippi's most vehement "fire-eater," Quitman played a significant role in the North-South estrangement that led to the American Civil War. The first critical biography of this important figure, May's study sheds light on such current historical controversies as whether antebellum Southerners were peculiarly militaristic or "anti-bourgeois" and helps illuminate the slave-master relations, mobility, intraregional class and geographic friction, partisan politics, and family customs of the old South. - Back cover.".
- catalog description "Yankee roots -- Mecca -- Public man -- The making of a nullifier -- Everything has gone against us -- Calhoun's protégé -- "Cincinnatus" in Texas -- Entrepreneur -- Hard times -- Repudiation -- Patriarch of the plantation world -- We came for action -- Conquest without glory -- Old Chapultepec -- War hero -- Civilizing the "Rosin-heels" -- Secessionist -- The Pearl of the Antilles -- Southern rights at bay -- A gentlemen's expedition -- Immigrants' son -- Equal rights or dissolution -- Effects of the poison -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic essay.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 465 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0807111880".
- catalog identifier "0807112070 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Southern biography series".
- catalog issued "1985".
- catalog issued "c1985.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi Politics and government To 1865.".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "F341.Q84 M39 1985".
- catalog subject "Governors Mississippi Biography.".
- catalog subject "Lawyers Mississippi Biography.".
- catalog subject "Legislators United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858.".
- catalog subject "Secession Mississippi.".
- catalog subject "Secession.".
- catalog subject "United States. Congress. House Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Yankee roots -- Mecca -- Public man -- The making of a nullifier -- Everything has gone against us -- Calhoun's protégé -- "Cincinnatus" in Texas -- Entrepreneur -- Hard times -- Repudiation -- Patriarch of the plantation world -- We came for action -- Conquest without glory -- Old Chapultepec -- War hero -- Civilizing the "Rosin-heels" -- Secessionist -- The Pearl of the Antilles -- Southern rights at bay -- A gentlemen's expedition -- Immigrants' son -- Equal rights or dissolution -- Effects of the poison -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic essay.".
- catalog title "John A. Quitman : Old South crusader / Robert E. May.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".