On 19 January 1861, at a state convention held in Milledgeville, Georgia voted to secede from the United States of America, becoming the fifth state to do so. Ten days later - 29 January - it issued a 'Declaration of the Causes of Secession', in which it expressed its grievances with the federal government and gave its reasons for seceding from the Union. Its main grievance was over slavery; it condemns the North for being too aggressive in its …
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