The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The Great Truth about the Lost Cause

Well if the southern states wanted to keep the slaves all they had to do was stay in the union. slavery was a protected right in the U.S. Constitution. Lincoln wanted to make this permanent in 1861, but political attention was distracted from it on April 12-13. Which is when the Attack on Fort Sumter occurred. If we look at Southern and Northern Documents as a whole we actually see the South was telling the truth. It's main focus was states rights. I studied this topic and all of its discussions for 5 years and if the confederate flag is racist then I'm John McCain. Thank god I'm not. Of anything the American flag is the racist flag. Under that flag, the American government FORCED the Indians (which were my ancestors, The Cherokee to be specific) out of their homeland, endorsed and defended the american slave trade, and under Sherman and Grants command, the union Army expelled the Jews from the service under these two generals. Lincoln approved this by the way. This flag slaughtered millions of innocent southern people( please read War crimes against Southern People), and let's not forget that after the War the Union Army focused its attention west on the remaining Pockets of Indians struggling to Survive. As quoted by Sherman himself, " The only good Indian is a dead Indian." The North not Racist? my @$$.

if the war was about slavery then why was the emancipation Proclamation not penned and signed until 1863 moron. Why was there more slaves in the north then in the south. Why was it that Gen Grant and Serman owned slaves and Lee and Jackson did not come on figure it out.........Taxation without representation and States rights!

This book is brilliant. It just lets the Southerners speak for themselves--and boy, do they say volumes about what the real cause of the war was all about. Highly recommended for your bonehead right-wing relative who heard on Fox that the war was really about states' rights: "Here, Dad, you can read what they said themselves!" All but the densest Tea Partiers will understand that maybe, just maybe, racism had something to do with the war.