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Special Event
Event
Imagining Disunion: The Nullification Crisis and the Road to Civil War
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Fee:
Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 39.000000, -78.000000
Talk takes place in the Henry Hill Visitor Center's Theater
Dates & Times
Date:
Saturday, November 19, 2022
Time:
10:00 AM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Talk
Description
This lecture reexamines the Nullification Crisis of 1832-33, during which South Carolina declared two federal laws null and void and brought the country to the brink of civil war. As radical Nullifiers prepared for war and began imagining independence, South Carolina's Unionist minority worked desperately to hold the country together. By examining this struggle within South Carolina, Neumann sheds new light on the events that led to secession and Civil War thirty years later.
Speaker: Dr. Brian Neumann, University of Virginia 2021