Archive for April 17th, 2008
What did make north and south different?
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 [...]


