> From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The other stuff is equally tendentious, of course. > The idea that the Civil War wasn't about slavery is > the product of a frankly racist school of historical > thinking that few historians of the post-Civil Rights > era would accept. The idea that it was about > confiscatory taxation is, of course, absurd.
I agree completely. I just finished reading "The Battle Cry of Freedom" a few months ago. It was clear from there that the war was, in fact, about states rights. (Which is one of many things historical revisionists like to say.) However, the rights involved just happened to be the right to keep slaves! It's crazy to say it wasn't about slavery. - jmh Very Good Book BTW Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
