Re: Vol 21 no 11 Richard J. Evans’ The spectre of conspiracies’ p 59
Ref: William W. Freehliing’s, Ph.D., The Road to Disunion 3 vols
Shelby Foote’s, The Civil War: a narrative
Charles Adams’s, Ph.D., Slavery, Secession & Civil War
What actually determines the elements of a conspiracy? Mr. Evans points to ‘alternative facts,’ p 60 para 1, yet does not clarify his claim
In recent years, the false claim that the American Civil War was fought over slavery has replaced the truth that it was about Jefferson’s 1776 Declaration of Independence, and Thomas Paines’ Common Sense and Rights of Man.
The three references above are but a small part of the body of work available on the subject. Succinctly, slavery is an economic issue, not racial. The American Civil War was fought over the issue of self-government, and the Mercantilist policy of taking taxes from The South and spending them in The North. Slavery was not a major issue of the war until Sharpsburg/ Antietam when the casualty lists were so extensive that both Britain and France decided that they should intervene to stop the bloodshed. In order to prevent the recognition of The Confederate States of America by the United Kingdom and France, Lincoln issued the unconstitutional Emancipation Proclamation, which freed no slaves as evidenced by the continued legality of slavery in such places as Delaware, Maryland, and those areas of Louisiana and Florida occupied by Union Armies.
Thus, are the true facts ‘alternative facts’ because Black Lives Matter and Antifa insist it to be so by destroying our and your histories, or are they actual conspiracists succeeding in Orwellian and Randian prescient prediction?
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Re: Vol 21 no 11 Richard J. Evans’ The spectre of conspiracies’ p 59
Ref: William W. Freehliing’s, Ph.D., The Road to Disunion 3 vols
Shelby Foote’s, The Civil War: a narrative
Charles Adams’s, Ph.D., Slavery, Secession & Civil War
What actually determines the elements of a conspiracy? Mr. Evans points to ‘alternative facts,’ p 60 para 1, yet does not clarify his claim
In recent years, the false claim that the American Civil War was fought over slavery has replaced the truth that it was about Jefferson’s 1776 Declaration of Independence, and Thomas Paines’ Common Sense and Rights of Man.
The three references above are but a small part of the body of work available on the subject. Succinctly, slavery is an economic issue, not racial. The American Civil War was fought over the issue of self-government, and the Mercantilist policy of taking taxes from The South and spending them in The North. Slavery was not a major issue of the war until Sharpsburg/ Antietam when the casualty lists were so extensive that both Britain and France decided that they should intervene to stop the bloodshed. In order to prevent the recognition of The Confederate States of America by the United Kingdom and France, Lincoln issued the unconstitutional Emancipation Proclamation, which freed no slaves as evidenced by the continued legality of slavery in such places as Delaware, Maryland, and those areas of Louisiana and Florida occupied by Union Armies.
Thus, are the true facts ‘alternative facts’ because Black Lives Matter and Antifa insist it to be so by destroying our and your histories, or are they actual conspiracists succeeding in Orwellian and Randian prescient prediction?
Respectfully yours,
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