Daniel Feller, distinguished professor of humanities from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will speak at the Cumberland Mountain Civil War Round Table meeting at 6 p.m. April 10 in Westminster Presbyterian Church at 114 Stonehenge Dr., Fairfield Glade.
Feller will discuss “The Coming of the Civil War.”
Many historians debating the origins of the Civil War focus on the reasons why Southern states declared their secession from the United States. Military conflict began in 1861 after decades of simmering tensions between Northern and Southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion.
Feller's presentation will outline his views on which kinds of conflict — ideological, economic, political, sectional or social — were the most important grounds for the war.
In the mid-19th century, while the United States was experiencing an era of tremendous growth, a fundamental economic difference existed between the country’s Northern and Southern regions.
In the North, manufacturing and industry was well established, and agriculture was mostly limited to small-scale farms, while the South’s economy was based on a system of large-scale farming that depended on the labor of slaves to grow crops, especially cotton and tobacco.
Feller received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1981. In 2003, he joined the history department of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Feller's research focuses on the mid-19th century, with special emphasis on Jacksonian politics and the reasons for the Civil War.
He is the editor and director of the Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee. His critical essays and review articles have appeared in numerous scholarly publications. In 2000, he was a Commonwealth Fund Lecturer in American History at University College London.
There is no charge for members and first-time visitors. Those visiting a second or subsequent time are asked to pay $5.
Light refreshments and conversation follow each meeting.
Call Susan Hadenchuk at 910-619-0023 for more about the Cumberland Mountain Civil War Round Table.
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