More yankee revisionist history. :)
0”More yankee revisionist history’’. So what’s ‘’revisionist’’, the South didn’t lose?
First of all, Stephens was totally right about how an anti-slavery government would effect the South. The 13th Amendment—which BTW—was barely passed despite all that had gone before—literally destroyed that part of the South economy not ruined by northern invasion. The Southern ruling class,the southern mercantile class was totally ruined, the whole hierarchy of southern society was affected. Slaves were just turned loose to fend for themselves, except for insufficient efforts by the Army and the Freedman’s bureau. To imagine something comparable, imagine if all our prisons were opened and the prisoners set free to rove at will. To be sure, the Southern secessionist were blind to the realities of geography. Lincoln could not allow the secession of the border states ,let the Mississippi be controlled by a foreign government, and Washington be surrounded by foreign territory.