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Apr. 11th, 2010 11:18 amI have often heard the argument that "the Civil War wasn't fought about slavery, in fact MOST people in the South didn't even own slaves"
As a refutation of that argument, I find the following http://www.archive.org/stream/interestinslaver1860/interestinslaver1860_djvu.txt
most interesting (even with the typos and errors of the transcriber- I have read the original which is HERE http://abolition.nypl.org/content/docs/text/interest_southern_nonslaveholder.pdf ). The gist of the article, written by a well-known Southern advocate of slavery, J.D.B. DeBow, in 1860, is that the above argument is a Northern abolitionist argument designed to fragment Southern adherence to slavery, and that, in fact slavery was more important to the South than agriculture was to the North.
As a refutation of that argument, I find the following http://www.archive.org/stream/interestinslaver1860/interestinslaver1860_djvu.txt
most interesting (even with the typos and errors of the transcriber- I have read the original which is HERE http://abolition.nypl.org/content/docs/text/interest_southern_nonslaveholder.pdf ). The gist of the article, written by a well-known Southern advocate of slavery, J.D.B. DeBow, in 1860, is that the above argument is a Northern abolitionist argument designed to fragment Southern adherence to slavery, and that, in fact slavery was more important to the South than agriculture was to the North.