Summary
Professor William C. Davis' recent op-ed piece "Slavery was the issue" (May 23) certainly contains interesting thoughts and constructively advances the dialogue as we move into the 150th observance of The War Between the States.
I have no doubt that scholarly research supports his statistics on the number of slaves and the number of farmers in America at the time. His point that the South was an agrarian economy somewhat helplessly trapped within the longstanding institution of slavery is well taken.See the full content of this document
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Honor Confederate Soldiers, Too
His discussion that slavery was the primary cause of secession, and thus the war, could have been better presented had he touched on the extent to whi...
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