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 --
Details
- 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)