The Gathering Storm

Confederate Truths: Documents of the Confederate & Neo-Confederate Tradition from 1787 to the Present.

Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan

John C. Calhoun Pro-Slavery U.S. Senator

Mildred Rutherford Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy

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Introduction

The Gathering Storm
(1787 – 1860)

Secession
(1859 – 1861)

Civil War
(1861 – 1865)

Reconstruction and Fusion
(1866 – 1890)

The Nadir of Race Relations
(1890 – 1940)

The Civil Rights Era
(1940 – Present)

Further Reading

The Gathering Storm

Debate Over Slavery at the Constitutional Convention, August 21-22, 1787.

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Threat of Civil War in Response to Abolition Petitions in the U.S. House, Feb. 12, 1790

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Threat of Civil War Over Abolitionist Petitions, March 16, 1790

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John Randolph of Roanoke Speaks on Latin American in the U.S. Senate, March 1-2, 1826

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South Carolina Asks That Non-Slaveholding States Make Abolitionist Societies Illegal, Dec. 16, 1835

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Mr. Pinckney Wishes to Save the Union from Abolitionist Petitions, Speech in the U.S. House, Feb. 8,1836

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Slave State Congressional Walkout Over Anti-Slavery Speech in U.S. House, They Secede from the U.S. House, Dec. 20 1837

Slave State Congressi
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Virginia Threatens to Break Up the Union Over the Wilmot Proviso, March 8, 1847

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Georgia Platform of 1850

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Threatening War Over Slavery in the Territories in the U.S. Senate, Feb. 18, 1850

Threating War Over Sl
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