Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... cause of the war , the revisionists went out of their way to argue that slavery was not a cause of the war at all , and that it was not even particularly a matter of importance to slaveholders , slaves , or to serious - minded men ...
... cause of the war , the revisionists went out of their way to argue that slavery was not a cause of the war at all , and that it was not even particularly a matter of importance to slaveholders , slaves , or to serious - minded men ...
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... causes of war , and not about the historian's moral judgment on a nation that permits a particular form of racial subordination to persist . When Schlesinger suggests that slavery was the cause of the Civil War and that the conflict was ...
... causes of war , and not about the historian's moral judgment on a nation that permits a particular form of racial subordination to persist . When Schlesinger suggests that slavery was the cause of the Civil War and that the conflict was ...
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... cause , and the passion for wealth was not the generating cause of our independence . ,, 41 The characteristic that most clearly distinguished the fathers from the sons was the latter generation's passion for material . gain , a passion ...
... cause , and the passion for wealth was not the generating cause of our independence . ,, 41 The characteristic that most clearly distinguished the fathers from the sons was the latter generation's passion for material . gain , a passion ...
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