It was not slavery. Philip Leigh, Abbeville Institute: (T)he North was more dependent upon the domestic economy than was the South. In 1860 Southern exports totaled $214 million as compared to only $47 million from the North. Moreover, the nation’s largest manufacturing industry, cotton textiles, was concentrated in New England […]
Tag: Lincoln
The Truth About Lincoln
Clyde Wilson, Abbeville Institute: There has always been a minority who have questioned the folklore (about Abraham Lincoln). They have pointed out that Lincoln was a wealthy corporation lawyer and a crafty and pathologically ambitious politician, who had an ambiguous and opportunistic relationship to slavery and Christianity. Who carried out […]
More Truth About the Civil War
I am taking the liberty of republishing another excellent article by Professor Clyde Wilson at the Abbeville Institute blog: The great internal bloodletting of 1861—1865 is still a central event and great dividing line in American history. In our discourse today, both high and low, it is now pervasively declared […]