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William C. Davis on Slavery

born 1946 United States

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Always there had been the complicated factor of the one institution that peculiarly set the South apart from the North, slavery...

Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (2002)

Confederates were terrified of what was happening to slavery.

Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (2002)

Thanks to slavery, in the South capital and labor were combined in nearly four million sweating field hands picking cotton and planting rice.

Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (2002)

It is impossible to point to any other local issue but slavery and say that Southerners would have seceded and fought over it.

The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy (1996)

The South had a far better chance of preserving its institutions and quirks of culture by remaining a part of a larger nation.

Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (2002)

The secession and the Confederacy's existence were predicated on slavery, on preserving and defending it against containment, as virtually all of its founders from Robert Barnwell Rhett to Jefferson Davis unashamedly declared in 1861.

Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America (2002)

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