In his provocative book, John Avery Emison sets the record straight on the legality of Southern secession. He laments the unnecessary loss of 620,000 lives, the burning of cities, and mass devastation to the South, wreaked between the years of 1861 and 1865, by the North. A close examination of the true causes of the Civil War reveals the fight was not one for racial justice, but rather a battle over the economic disparities between the North and the South. By illustrating how Abraham Lincoln’s tyrannical presidency paved the way for today’s bloated “Leviathan” government, Emison brings his subject into the twenty-first century and puts forth his fear for the future. This is the ePub/eBook version of this title. This is not the print edition.

In his provocative book, John Avery Emison sets the record straight on the legality of Southern secession. He laments the unnecessary loss of 620,000 lives, the burning of cities, and mass devastation to the South, wreaked between the years of 1861 and 1865, by the North. A close examination of the true causes of the Civil War reveals the fight was not one for racial justice, but rather a battle over the economic disparities between the North and the South. By illustrating how Abraham Lincoln’s tyrannical presidency paved the way for today’s bloated “Leviathan” government, Emison brings his subject into the twenty-first century and puts forth his fear for the future.