Prior to Lincoln’s war against the South in the 1860s, Southerners had built up one of the most productive economies anywhere on Earth. This agricultural economy was largely dependent upon cotton and tobacco farming and upon African slave labour. While the Northeast, ill-suited for large-scale agriculture, industrialised sooner than the South, industry was beginning...
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James Tuslow Adams‘ 1932 work The March of Democracy: A History of the United States, Volume III: Civil War and Reconstruction describes on pages 9-14 the serious situation that Southerners found themselves in during the Fall and Winter of 1860. What was on the line was the survival of the South’s economy, social structure and entire...
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SNN has produced another New Golden Circle podcast! This one examines the destructive ideas of that came out of the French Revolution and the ruin it brought to Haiti and other countries (such as Rhodesia and South Africa). It goes on to discuss the 1860 warnings of Southern secession commissioners from Alabama that Yankee-Republican...
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In his 1990 book War For What?, Francis W Springer writes in detail about the origins of Lincoln’s war against the South. In particular, the author provides a perspective on African slavery in the South and the movement which arose against it in the Northern States, how this movement was funded and the financial and...
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Author and professor Thaddeus Russell comes from a far-Left/Progressive background but came to radical pro-liberty conclusions in his study of Colonial North America and the reactionary, statist forces (represented primarily by the Hamiltonian faction which grew into the Federalist Party) against the freedom which was developing in the late 1700s. Russell also goes into the...
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