 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...Confederacy, Lincoln went on to analyze the cause of the war. "One eighth of the whole population was colored slaves, not distributed generally over the...that this interest was somehow the cause of the war." Historians have spilled much ink for generations about the causes of the Civil War, but few have been... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - Religion - 2004 - 1220 pages
...nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed...this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no 33. See especially Bushnell's "Our... | |
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One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of... 
