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The Day of the Confederacy

ByNathanial W. Stephenson

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The Day of the Confederacy, first published in 1919, is one of the first popular histories of the so-called "American Civil War" that presents the South and its Cause in true historical context. Up until this book, almost all accounts of the war portrayed the South as a cruel, greed-driven, immoral people who enjoyed killing as a sport and were delighted to kill to protect their satanic practice of human slavery. As Stephenson found out through immpeccable scholarship, slavery had a secondary role in the cause of the war. The South realized it was shamelessly exploited by the North; it realized its heavy taxes to Washington went mainly for Northern education, transportation, medical research, urban development, et al. The South was considered ignorant and backwards -- not capable of rising to levels of Northern culture. Needless to say, The Day of the Confederacy is a disappearing classic because it reveals things that even today the North would rather ignore --

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Publication Date
Sep 17, 2008
Language
English
Category
History
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Nathanial W. Stephenson

Specifications

Pages
155
Binding
Linen Wrap
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)

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