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Politician. Raphael Gamaliel Warnock was born on July 23, 1969, in Savannah, Georgia. His parents, Jonathan and Verlene Warnock, served as pastors in their local churches and raised twelve children, of whom he was the second youngest. In addition to working with the church, his father operated a salvage business. Growing up in a religious household, Warnock began delivering sermons while still a child.

The documents under examination in this chapter vehemently defend the decisions of South Carolina and Georgia to secede from the United States of America in, respectively, late 1860 and early 1861. South Carolina was the first of the eleven states to secede; Georgia was the fifth. There are immediate differences in the approaches used by both: South Carolina employing impassioned, heated words in explanation of their secession, including substantial citations from the Declaration of Independence and early American leaders; and Georgia employing a more sedate, economical approach. One noted difference is the direct reference to slavery early in Georgia’s document—stating that the right of slavery was implicit within the birth of the nation as a whole—while South Carolina’s conclusion (which makes no mention of the institution of slavery) was based primarily on their right, as dictated within the Declaration of Independence, to throw off a government which impeded their natural rights to govern their people independently.