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To: Sherman Logan
Sherman Logan: "Also ran across what is far and away the most comprehensive timeline of the Civil War I've ever seen. Very useful."

Detailed Civil War timeline

Thanks. I've long looked for such a resource.
Already have two similar books here, but online is quicker & easier to reference...

472 posted on 04/21/2013 12:17:51 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK
Found another resource.

Hinton Rowan Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It, which you have probably heard of. 1857.

Sort of the anti-Kettel. A southerner who hated slavery because it was detrimental to non-slaveowning whites, not because it was unjust to black people.

Tries to use the same batch of statistics to prove the great impediment that slavery produces, not its advantages.

I'm not enough of a statistician to tell who is right. Suspect both are, to some extent. Slavery was wildly profitable for some, and immensely destructive to the prospects of others.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/helper/helper.html

Guy is amazingly long-winded and tends to over-egg his pudding. 400+ page book would probably have been much better edited down to <200.

473 posted on 04/21/2013 5:01:34 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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