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Cheers to Sherman!
• The entirely different factors which prompted the upper South to then also secede
• An accurate picture of what life was like for minorities in both the North and South, and, as inherently wrong as the institution of slavery has always been on planet earth, why southern slaves generally viewed their situation as preferable
• Character traits and motives of Abraham Lincoln which shatter the humanitarian hero image painted in our minds
• Eye-opening facts about African-American support for the Confederacy, the history and current status of slavery worldwide, insights into the true enemy of free peoples everywhere, and more.
Let me address this BS please.
1/ Cotton states succeeded first because they had the most plantations that were using slaves so they were more dependant on slave labour and the infrastructure that comes with that institution.
2/ Southern slaves viewed their life as preferable?On what planet is being a slave preferable?.
3/ Lincoln would never had been elected in racist America at the time unless he conformed to the nationalist view of course he said some dubious things many politicians do to get themselves into power.
4/ African-American support for the Confederacy , Yeah this just needs to stop at this point because were getting into the realms of pure fantasy.
If anyone is in doubt what the Confederacy stood for ill point them to Alexander Stephan's Cornerstone speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech
So in your mind a wiki article overrides 90 pages regarding secession stuffed full of original sources? The fact that you cite the cornerstone speech (as the book says is the first argument, one of only a half dozen and refutes it) shows the book correct. We must ignore the wealth of document and are only allowed a select few to try and indicate secession was over slavery.
The rest is addressed in the book.
It's a good thing the traitors in the south at the time said themselves in speeches and news articles why they chose to rebel. I think I'll take their word over yours or this inaccurate book's word any day of the week.
Just remember the "lost cause" revision of history has been shown to be wrong over and over.
Agreed, that is why the over 90 pages on the subject full of such speeches and documents are vital. We should not pay attention to only the half dozen we are allowed to be familiar with such as the cornerstone speech. Also we need to have everything placed within ins context. Then we can see why the South left the Union and understand that the winners version of the war is revised from historical truth.
The South left the Union over Slavery and no it wasn't tariffs the port of New York was 60% of the US income at the time therefore New York should have been the one to succeed if it was over tariffs.
The whole of the Deep Souths commence was based on slave labour and the infrastructure that came with it with the influx of more free states than slave states the chances are that slavery would be abolished and with Lincoln a moderate being elected who btw didn't even appear on the ballots of the Southern States the South saw the writing on the wall.
States Rights included slavery in their composition , After the war leaders of the confederacy changed their tune saying it wasn't over slavery however you would have to be a real thickie not to understand that states rights was all about slavery and the reason why they were written in the first place.
I wish you had told me this before i wrote the book! See I have over 90 pages full or original sources from the period relevant to the causes of secession. Placed in there 1860 context they clearly state something different than what you have said. But rather than listening to them, I ought to just listen to you. Thank you for correcting me. I repent of my misguided ways!
To quote Shelby Foote "All roads lead to slavery"
The Biggest mistake the North made was being to lenient with the South after the war which lead to JIm Crow and the formation of the KKK.
Their will be nothing in your book i haven't heard from bleating lost causers after studying the war for over 30 years let me see in order of popularity.
1/ Northern Aggression
2/ Tariffs
3/ The Right to succeed according to the Constitution although not mentioned it may be implied.
4/ Its all about Southern Heritage.
We literally have a room full of documents of speeches made by prominent Confederates while lobbing for succession that categorically state why they are succeeding and it comes down to the same topic Slavery and States Rights that include slavery.
I half expect your book to be endorsed by Philip Leigh.
You do have special abilities that allows you to know things without reading them. See your claims (I thought) were false based on my research. But once more you have shown 1860 wrong about there own period, thank you.
I have some books I need to read on another topic, could I run them by you so you can tell me what they are about, it will save me a bunch of time.
Correct, slave labour was more productive and cost effective, however the radical Republicans said that slavery was unproductive and holding back Cotton states.
Thats the answer the old slaves gave post war when questioned, by a federal survey re record for posterity what the institution was like, they were were happier as laves than now as free.
its the Slave narratives, and holds 70,000 slave accounts, 65% of them said they were happier as slaves than free.
Correct, Lincoln was white supremacist.
Except free Afro Americns did chose to support the CSA, slave had to do so no matter what they individually thought, and we have plenty of slave narratives of the affection and loyal service, rewarded post war by pensions to former slaves, to those that owned them.
except A stephans denied thats an accurate account of what he said.
Anyone not familiar with US History, as you are, should look at the DOI.
Except NY harbour was the principle import collection of the Tariif, those goods imported here were 75% going to southern states, so 66% was collected in NY of which the South factors, payed in NY as the point of entry in gold at the wharehouse to get there merchandise to take south. in other words the federal revenue collected in NY was payed mostly by the South.
Gov of NY did threaten to secede over the Tariff, he would hold session ordinances unless POTUS enforced a uniform tariff over the South, as the CS Tariff was so much lower it meant the end of NY economically.
The only place that quote by s Foote exists is you posting it twice on steam, it does not exist anywhere else on the internet, because its not a quote from him.
As usual you resort to invention when anything to do with history is involved.
Its in the Constitutional ratification of 3 states, VA for example, all ratified on the condition they can unilaterally secede at at will, once the amendment giving all states a right another had asserted, and the constitution guarantees to all member states, new members no longer needed to ratify with the same provisions. It also how the perpetual Aoc was ended, by unilateral secession, and how the perpetual Union with the Uk was ended in 1776.
Indeed, your book adds nothing new, contains no new insights or interpretation of information not already covered better by others.