Sentence examples for declarations of secession from inspiring English sources

Wright said he has his students read the Southern state declarations of secession to learn for themselves what the war was about.

Among the biggest and most common problems, he said, is textbooks' failure to quote from key primary sources: the Southern states' declarations of secession, which made clear that they were leaving the union to protect white citizens' right to own slaves.

If really wondering what Civil War was about, read the actual declarations of secession.

Four confederate states -- Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas -- issued declarations of secession in order to expound upon their reasons.

Those who believe slavery was not a central point of conflict in the Civil War may wish to peruse the South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas declarations of secession.

The Manifesto of the Province of Flanders (1790) was the first foreign derivation of the Declaration; others include the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence (1811), the Liberian Declaration of Independence (1847), the declarations of secession by the Confederate States of America (1860 61), and the Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (1945).

Nor could town officials and local historians find North Hempstead's original Declaration of Secession.

Consider the language of South Carolina's declaration of secession from the Union.

There was a Miss Confederate beauty pageant, parades, and even a re-enactment of South Carolina's declaration of secession.

He had the misfortune to be born into an impoverished southern aristocratic family, the great-great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Secession that took South Carolina out of the union.

They also contend that the leaders of the Catalan party have always known that Mr. Zapatero would oppose any declaration of secession rights and that he has made it clear to them that his position is not negotiable.