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Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!
By Lochlainn Seabrook. Did you know that . . .
- American slavery got its start in the North
- Abolition began in the South
- Robert E. Lee was an abolitionist
- Only 4.8% of Southerners owned slaves
- 95.2% of Southerners did not own slaves
- Abraham Lincoln was a White separatist
- Jefferson Davis adopted a Black boy
- Jefferson Davis freed Southern slaves before the North
- Lincoln was not against slavery
- Lincoln wanted to segregate Blacks
- The U.S. was originally called the Confederate States of America
- Lincoln won both the 1860 and 1864 elections with less than 50% of the vote
- Thousands of Blacks and American Indians owned slaves
- Lincoln started the Civil War
- The Northern armies were racially segregated
- The Southern armies were racially integrated
- After emancipation, 95% of Blacks voluntarily remained in the South
- Approximately 500,000 African-Americans fought gallantly for the Confederacy
- The original Ku Klux Klan had thousands of dedicated Black members
- The South is still recovering from the war
- True slavery was not practiced in the South
- Many Northern generals, like U.S. Grant, owned slaves
- Most Southern generals did not own slaves
- Many Union generals said they would not fight for abolition
- Lincoln was a big government liberal
- Davis was a small government conservative
- Much, much more!
In Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!, award-winning author and historian Lochlainn Seabrook sets the record straight on these and hundreds of other commonly misrepresented topics in this easy-to-read, well documented reference book. This international blockbuster is the book that every Civil War buff has been waiting for! Learn the truth about the war, secession, slavery, abolition, the Confederacy, the Union, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction, and much more. This isn’t just a hard-hitting exposé of Yankee myth.
Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner! has the power to heal hearts and change minds, for in re-educating the world about Lincoln’s War it will give Northerners a better understanding of the conflict, while making Southerners of all races and political persuasions proud to be Southern.
The foreword is by African-American educator Nelson W. Winbush, a grandson of the Confederacy’s only Black chaplain, Private Louis Napoleon Nelson—one of 65 black Confederate soldiers who proudly served and fought under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Lochlainn Seabrook—winner of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal—is the most popular and prolific pro-South writer in the world today. His works have introduced hundreds of thousands to the truth about the War for Southern Independence. Pick up your copy of the five-star bestseller that everyone’s talking about and discover the facts about America’s “Great War” for yourself! Includes over 1,000 endnotes, a 700-book bibliography and is indexed.
Softcover, 266 pp.
