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Turning point · The American Civil War, 1861–1865
Secession
20 Dec 1860 — South Carolina’s convention votes 169–0 to leave the Union, citing in its own declaration “an increasing hostility… to the institution of slavery.” Six more states follow by February.
This is one scene of Chapter 2 — Secession Winter in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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