To: rustbucket; capitan_refugio
"I've seen the Stephens book but not the Davis one. In what way were these books revisionist?"
They laud the rebellious Democrats of the Confederacy.
1,485 posted on
07/11/2003 6:29:06 AM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
To: rustbucket; stand watie; WhiskeyPapa; Non-Sequitur; capitan_refugio
The Democrat revisionism, begun by Davis and Stephens, is that the Confederates rebelled against the united States Government for reasons other than to preserve slavery. All this Democrat nonsense about tariffs and such is revisonist drivel.
1,487 posted on
07/11/2003 6:37:57 AM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
(You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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