The matter of freeing the slaves is a political issue, because it is intertwined with the War Between the States with its issues of states' rights, and others, that are still relevant even today. Being a political issue, that means that there is a lot of misinformation (to put in nicely) floating around on all sides of the issue. (Note that there is not the copious amount of misinformation floating around about, for example, the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812, because there are very few, if any, lingering political issues today that were involved with those wars).
Bringing this discussion back to the subject of books, does anyone have an opinion or recommendation about a book on the Civil War that is very accurate, and unbiased as much as possible, one in which people can place a high degree of confidence that it is telling the truth in what it says?
Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-11-2015 at 11:32 PM.
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