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Loading... The Cause of the South : selections from De Bow's review, 1846-1867by Paul F. Paskoff (Editor), Daniel J. Wilson (Editor)
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"A forum for the South the New Orleans-based periodical De Bow's Review was one of the best-known and most influential voices of southern interests, hopes, and fears. During the more than two decades of it existence, the Review established itself as an indispensable source of fact and articulate opinion in the South. In The Cause of the South, the authors have assembled a representative selection of articles from De Bow's Review that, taken together, provide a vivid portrait of the intellectual currents that ran through the South in the tense years leading to, during, and immediately following the Civil War. De Bow founded his journal to provide a forum for the South's unique agricultural and economic interests, but in the politically volatile decade of the 1850s it was not long before the magazine took up the issues and the cause of southern nationalism and proslavery apologetics. When the South firmly, but reluctantly, moved toward secession, the Review remained in the thick of the debate, ever watchful over the region's interests. The Cause of the South is the first volume to make readily available a cross section of the contents of De Bow's Review--thus revealing the range and the quality of southern thought during more than twenty years of constant concern over the region's future. -- Amazon.com. No library descriptions found. |
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Sadly, that does not appear to be the case. Rich, white, southern, christian slave-owners resisted the north's "fanatical" abolitionist views because of one thing: the unbelievably high profit margins that free labor enabled them to reap off King Cotton, and sent hundreds of thousands of poor young men to slaughter to protect their assets. I've established it to my satisfaction by reading these articles "straight from the horse's mouth" and I am appalled and ashamed at some of the biblical, pseudo-medical, pseudo-scientific defenses of slavery espoused therein. When all the rest of the world busied themselves with abolishing this ancient institution of violence during the late 18th and early 19th century, the southern American states not only defended it, but sought to strengthen and expand it. It saddens me to think how many young men had to die fighting over the question of whether one human being could legally own another and treat him or her as livestock.
Having said that, I will continue reading up on the Civil War, particularly how it affected the day-to-day lives of Southern civilians near the battle lines. But I did not achieve by consuming this book what I expected: a morsel of empathy for the confederate mindset. Perhaps that, itself, is a Lost Cause. (