A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War
By Thomas Fleming
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By the time his body hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper's Ferry, abolitionists had made John Brown a "holy martyr" in the fight against Southern slave owners. But Northern hatred for Southerners had been long in the making. Northern rage was born of the conviction that New England, whose spokesmen and militia had begun the American Revolution, should have been the leader of the new nation. Instead, they had been displaced by Southern "slavocrats" like Thomas Jefferson. And Northern envy only exacerbated the South's greatest fear: race war. In the sixty years preceding the outbreak of civil war, Northern and Southern fanatics ramped up the struggle over slavery. By the time they had become intractable enemies, only the tragedy of a bloody civil war could save the Union. In this riveting and character-driven history, one of America's most respected historians traces the "disease in the public mind"—distortions of reality that seized large numbers of Americans—in the decades-long run-up to the Civil War.
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Summary
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By the time his body hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper's Ferry, abolitionists had made John Brown a "holy martyr" in the fight against Southern slave owners. But Northern hatred for Southerners had been long in the making. Northern rage was born of the conviction that New England, whose spokesmen and militia had begun the American Revolution, should have been the leader of the new nation. Instead, they had been displaced by Southern "slavocrats" like Thomas Jefferson. And Northern envy only exacerbated the South's greatest fear: race war. In the sixty years preceding the outbreak of civil war, Northern and Southern fanatics ramped up the struggle over slavery. By the time they had become intractable enemies, only the tragedy of a bloody civil war could save the Union.
In this riveting and character-driven history, one of America's most respected historians traces the "disease in the public mind"—distortions of reality that seized large numbers of Americans—in the decades-long run-up to the Civil War.
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History...warts and all.
- An enlightening view of the stain of slavery on this land and how it eventually split the nation in two. In the North it became a social issue. In the South it was an economic issue. The author shows how these two opposed ideologies clashed over the years and created the huge divide that brought us to civil war. An outstanding book!
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Available Formats : | Digital Download, Digital Rental, CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/History |
Runtime: | 11.72 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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