Retrieved 21: Scope of Inquiry: Literature From 1860-1861 or From 1830-1861?

James Lutzweiler

Sergeant Major
Joined
Mar 14, 2018
My Fellow Posters,

I pose a simple question here.

In the search for some kind of proportionate percentages of the several acknowledged different and total ingredients in the recipe for Secession and the Civil War, a/k/a "The War of Southern Aggression," what should be the scope of inquiry: Only literature from 1860-1861 or all the literature from 1830-1861?

Note: This is NOT a resurrection of the dispute itself over Civil War causation. Please address the dates and whether or not you feel that choosing only 1860-1861 is an exercise in literary cherrypicking, somewhat tendentiously and exclusively to support a view of admittedly unrequited cottonpicking as the primary cause of the War.

James Lutzweiler
Archivist (1999-2013)
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wake Forest, NC
 
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