Posted by MarkB_MI on January 26, 2015 at 02:38:04 from (70.194.6.250):
In Reply to: Re: 12 days a slave posted by John in La on January 25, 2015 at 12:53:27:
John, I wasn't aware that history books are divided into "northern" and "southern" history. What I do know is that some books try to explain history while sticking to well-established facts, while others play fast and loose with the facts in pursuit of the author's agenda.
It might be acceptable to speculate on the motives of, say, the participants of the Peloponnesian War. After all, the facts have become a bit murky over the years. That's not the case for the American Civil War, where the intentions and actions of its participants are documented in great detail through artifacts like the one I referenced earlier. To ascribe anachronistic motives to those participants isn't southern history or northern history. It's simply Bad History.
The revisionists would have you believe that the southern states seceded over some abstract principles, when they had plenty of very concrete reasons to do so. They saw the northern abolitionists as direct threats to their wealth, livelihood and way of life.
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