[shuckmaster]

I suppose I was lucky to have had school teachers who still taught their classes the truth about the economic origins of the War Between the States.
It's amazing that today, so many misinformed and otherwise intellegent looking people will look you straight in the eye & try to tell you the war was fought over slavery when that absurd revisionist notion never even appeared in any history book published north or South until well after Bruce Canton started publishing his series of historical fiction books approximately 75 years after the war.
Thank you DiLo for waking people up to the truth again!!!

[stand watie]

well said!

[HELLRAISER II]

Can't have the truth when P.C. is more important, NOT!

[4CJ]

Thank you DiLo for waking people up to the truth again!!!

Bump! It's nice to see so many attempts to supress/refute the book even before publication - it's evidence that DiLorenzo hit a nerve. ;o)

[x]

Thank you DiLo for waking people up to the truth again!!!

Congrats to DiLo for snagging Ben Affleck! Who knew?

[WhiskeyPapa]

It's amazing that today, so many misinformed and otherwise intellegent looking people will look you straight in the eye & try to tell you the war was fought over slavery when that absurd revisionist notion never even appeared in any history book published north or South until well after Bruce Canton started publishing his series of historical fiction books approximately 75 years after the war.

Well, that's not true.

Soon to be CSA congressman Lawrence Keitt, speaking in the South Carolina secession convention, said, "Our people have come to this on the question of slavery. I am willing, in that address to rest it upon that question. I think it is the great central point from which we are now proceeding, and I am not willing to divert the public attention from it."

That is from 1860.

How about this:

"The Union of the Constitution was a Union of slaveholding States. It rests on Slavery, by prescribing a representation in Congress for three-fifths of our slaves. There is nothing in the proceedings of the Convention which framed the Constitution to show that the Southern States would have formed any other union; and still less that they would have formed a union with more powerful non-slaveholding States, having a majority in both branches of the Legislature of the Government. They were guilty of no such folly."

--Robert Barnwell Rhett, 1860.

Why would you tell such a lie?

Walt

[Heyworth]

It's amazing that today, so many misinformed and otherwise intellegent looking people will look you straight in the eye & try to tell you the war was fought over slavery when that absurd revisionist notion never even appeared in any history book published north or South until well after Bruce Canton started publishing his series of historical fiction books approximately 75 years after the war.

"The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true." - U.S. Grant, in his Memoirs, 1885.