In American history, the Fire-Eaters were a loosely aligned group of radical pro-secession Democrats in the antebellum South who urged the separation of the slave states into a new …

Fire-eaters managed to tap into a venerable American political tradition that considered localism as liberty’s foundation and bulwark. The desire for local control of affairs had fueled …

By 1863, his fire-eater secessionism had been recognized as too extreme, and he was defeated in a race for a seat in the Confederate Congress. When the Civil War ended, he refused to …

May 23, 2018 · Fire-eaters were southern political ideologues whose uncompromising demands and radical oratory on the subject of slavery and secession played an important part in driving …

Sep 7, 2020 · Fire-Eaters were a group of pro-slavery Southerners who advocated for secession and the creation of a new nation out of slaveholding states as well as reopening the trans …

In researching the life of William Lowndes Yancey, Yancey’s role in secession is undeniable. As a fire-eater, Yancey perhaps played his role better than any other politician, living in disruption …

This article will focus on the most conspicuous Fire-Eaters of 1860, Edmund Ruffin of Virginia, Robert Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina and his son, Barnwell Rhett, Jr., and William …

Jul 7, 2023 · A vehement advocate for southern rights, popularly known as a "Fire-Eater," he accomplished his ultimate objective in 1860 when he precipitated the dissolution, not of the …

In the years leading up to the Civil War, a group of southern leaders called “Fire-eaters” because of their fiery rhetoric, pushed the region towards secession and, ultimately, civil war. Extreme …

The Fire-Eaters by Eric H. Walther consists of a series of biographical vignettes about nine leaders of the Old South and their contribution to the secessionist movement. The individuals …