Slavery Myths

connecticut yankee

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Jun 2, 2017
Here is in my opinion a well written article from the American Civil War Museum (yes, those folks at Tredegar) that attempts to show how closely the North and South were linked in 1860 to the slavery question, citing how northern financial markets were largely dependent on the expansion of slavery. Above all, the article tries to debunk the notion that slavery by 1860 was solely a "Southern thing", and the notion that the North somehow by then found it's morality as to this 'Peculiar Institution". By the time Uncle Tom's Cabin was published Abolistionist Harriet Beecher Stowe was calling slavery the "National Sin".

 
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