<1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper ALABAMA SECEDES from UNION Joins Confederates SLAVERY

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1861 CIVIL WAR newspaper with back-page headline report announcing that Alabama SECEDES FROM the UNION and Joins the Confederacy SLAVERY -
inv # Lg 4L-216
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
New York Evening Post
(NY) dated January 19, 1861 with fantastic Alabama and CONFEDERATE STATES history, on the eve of the CIVIL WAR!!
Perfect for framing and display, this beautiful CIVIL WAR artifact would look great hanging in any modern-day Alabama home or business!!
The State of Alabama was central to the Civil War, with the secession convention at Montgomery, birthplace of the Confederacy, inviting other states to form a Southern Republic, during January
–March 1861, and develop constitutions to legally run their own affairs. The 1861 Alabama Constitution granted citizenship to current U.S. residents, but prohibited import duties (tariffs) on foreign goods, limited a standing military, and as a final issue, opposed emancipation by any nation, but urged protection of African slaves, with trial by jury, and reserved the power to regulate or prohibit the African slave trade. The secession convention invited all slaveholding states to secede, but only 7 Cotton States of the Lower South formed the Confederacy with Alabama, while the majority of slave states were in the Union and voted to make U.S. slavery permanent by passing the Corwin Amendment, signed by President Buchanan and backed by President Lincoln on March 4, 1861.
Even before secession, the governor of Alabama defied the United States government by seizing the two federal forts at the Gulf Coast (forts Morgan and Gaines) and the arsenal at Mount Vernon in January 1861 to distribute weapons to Alabama towns.The peaceful seizure of Alabama forts preceded by three months the bombing and capture of the Union's Fort Sumter (SC) on April 12, 1861.
Alabama was politically divided, voting to secede 61-39%, with most opposition by Unionists in northern Alabama, and citizens subsequently joined both Confederate and Union forces. Issues of slavery also were divided, with emancipation denied, but slaves protected, allowed trial by jury same as free whites, and African Slave Trade was discouraged in the 1861 Ordinances.
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