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Economy and Attitudes Toward Government Weren't Only Reasons for State's Secession

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Arkansas seceded from the Union in May 1861. Jim Gigantino has researched how the state came to the point of secession in a new book titled Slavery and Secession in Arkansas: a Documentary History.

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Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.