Archive for April 17th, 2008

What did make north and south different?

Posted on April 17, 2008. Filed under: American history, Civil War | Tags: , , |

In today’s post, part two of my series on how slavery led to the Civil War, I’ll be leaning on the historian James McPherson for quotes, from his fascinating book This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War.
 
First, all that data on tariff debates and farmer v. factory worker is, indeed, not the stuff of [...]

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