American Slavery in an Hour by Kat Smutz

Author:Kat Smutz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Secession

In November 1860, Lincoln was elected as the sixteenth president of the United States. Secessionists again threatened to leave the Union. It was no empty threat. On 20 December 1860, the State of South Carolina was the first to declare itself a sovereign nation. The Confederate States of America was born. Other states soon followed, and by February 1861, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas had also seceded.

As part of their Declaration of Causes of Secession, South Carolina cited the fourth article of the US Constitution:

No person held to service or labor in one State under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.

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