War of Secession

Backed by Russia, Abkhazia fought a war of secession with Georgia in 1992-93, before unilaterally declaring independence.

In 1994, after a bloody war of secession against Georgian forces, Abkhazia enacted a Constitution declaring itself a sovereign state.

The region fought a war of secession with Georgia from 1992-93 and declared independence in 1999, but has little international recognition.

But many of the historians the Tribune spoke with said the pamphlet doesn't go far enough, noting that it omits how central defending slavery was in the Texas war of secession from Mexico and the Civil War.

The Confederacy responded to Abraham Lincoln's words with a war of secession, waged by the South against the North in defense of owning Black people as human property in perpetuity.