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Give This Book to a Yankee!: A Southern Guide to the Civil War for Northerners
Award-winning author and historian Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook has done it again. He's given traditional Southerners yet another book that not only rectifies many of the notoriously false Yankee myths floating around out there, but one that makes Southerners genuinely proud to be Southern!
This brief work, provocatively entitled Give This Book to a Yankee! A Southern Guide to the Civil War For Northerners, is a loose distillation of his international blockbuster, Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner! Pared down several hundred pages for quick reading, as the title suggests, Give This Book to a Yankee! makes an excellent gift for your Northern friends, or even for fellow Southerners who have been inculcated with pro-North nonsense, and who need reeducating as to Dixie's authentic history.
The book's nineteen chapters cover the most salient aspects of what Colonel Seabrook likes to call "Lincoln's War," including such topics as the true cause behind the conflict, the legality of secession, race relations in the Old South and the Old North, myths about so-called "slavery," the real origins of the American abolition movement, Jeff Davis, Abe Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, the treatment of blacks in the Confederate and Union armies, the KKK, Reconstruction, and much more. For scholars the volume comes with over 200 endnotes and a bibliography. The Foreword is by African-American educator Karen Cooper of the Virginia Flaggers.
Heavily researched and illustrated, Give This Book to a Yankee! is an essential weapon anyone can use to defend Dixie and the Southern Cause, making it a must-have for traditional Southerners, Civil War buffs, and teachers. Keep several copies on hand to give out. You never know when you're going to bump into an unenlightened Yank or reconstructed Southerner! Available in paperback and hardcover.
Neo-Victorian historian Lochlainn Seabrook, whose literary works range from astronomy to zoology, is one of the most prolific and popular writers in the world today. A descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens, John S. Mosby, Edmund W. Rucker, and William Giles Harding, he is known by literary critics as the "new Shelby Foote" and the "American Robert Graves," and by his fans as the "Voice of the Traditional South." The Sons of Confederate Veterans member is a Kentucky Colonel, a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, and currently the author and editor of 100 scholarly books. Described by his readers as "game changers" and "life-altering," his voluminous writings have introduced hundreds of thousands to vital facts that have been left out of our mainstream books. A 7th generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and the 6th great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Col. Seabrook has a 45-year background in American and Southern history, and is the author of the worldwide bestseller Abraham Lincoln Was a Liberal, Jefferson Davis Was a The Missing Key to Understanding the American Civil War.
His other titles Lincoln's The Real Cause, the Real Winner, the Real Loser; The Concise Book of Owls; Seabrook's Bible Dictionary of Traditional and Mystical Christian Doctrines; The Bittersweet Race Relations in the Old South as Described by White and Black Southerners; The Martian A Photographic Search for Intelligent Life on Mars; The Great Yankee Coverup; Confederacy 101: Amazing Facts You Never Knew About America's Oldest Political Tradition; Support Your Local Wit and Humor in the Southern Confederacy; Confederate Flag What Every American Should Know About Dixie's Southern Cross; Women in Gray; Everything You Were Taught About American Slavery is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!
This brief work, provocatively entitled Give This Book to a Yankee! A Southern Guide to the Civil War For Northerners, is a loose distillation of his international blockbuster, Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner! Pared down several hundred pages for quick reading, as the title suggests, Give This Book to a Yankee! makes an excellent gift for your Northern friends, or even for fellow Southerners who have been inculcated with pro-North nonsense, and who need reeducating as to Dixie's authentic history.
The book's nineteen chapters cover the most salient aspects of what Colonel Seabrook likes to call "Lincoln's War," including such topics as the true cause behind the conflict, the legality of secession, race relations in the Old South and the Old North, myths about so-called "slavery," the real origins of the American abolition movement, Jeff Davis, Abe Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, the treatment of blacks in the Confederate and Union armies, the KKK, Reconstruction, and much more. For scholars the volume comes with over 200 endnotes and a bibliography. The Foreword is by African-American educator Karen Cooper of the Virginia Flaggers.
Heavily researched and illustrated, Give This Book to a Yankee! is an essential weapon anyone can use to defend Dixie and the Southern Cause, making it a must-have for traditional Southerners, Civil War buffs, and teachers. Keep several copies on hand to give out. You never know when you're going to bump into an unenlightened Yank or reconstructed Southerner! Available in paperback and hardcover.
Neo-Victorian historian Lochlainn Seabrook, whose literary works range from astronomy to zoology, is one of the most prolific and popular writers in the world today. A descendant of the families of Alexander H. Stephens, John S. Mosby, Edmund W. Rucker, and William Giles Harding, he is known by literary critics as the "new Shelby Foote" and the "American Robert Graves," and by his fans as the "Voice of the Traditional South." The Sons of Confederate Veterans member is a Kentucky Colonel, a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, and currently the author and editor of 100 scholarly books. Described by his readers as "game changers" and "life-altering," his voluminous writings have introduced hundreds of thousands to vital facts that have been left out of our mainstream books. A 7th generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and the 6th great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Col. Seabrook has a 45-year background in American and Southern history, and is the author of the worldwide bestseller Abraham Lincoln Was a Liberal, Jefferson Davis Was a The Missing Key to Understanding the American Civil War.
His other titles Lincoln's The Real Cause, the Real Winner, the Real Loser; The Concise Book of Owls; Seabrook's Bible Dictionary of Traditional and Mystical Christian Doctrines; The Bittersweet Race Relations in the Old South as Described by White and Black Southerners; The Martian A Photographic Search for Intelligent Life on Mars; The Great Yankee Coverup; Confederacy 101: Amazing Facts You Never Knew About America's Oldest Political Tradition; Support Your Local Wit and Humor in the Southern Confederacy; Confederate Flag What Every American Should Know About Dixie's Southern Cross; Women in Gray; Everything You Were Taught About American Slavery is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!
78 pages, Paperback
First published February 4, 2014
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Lochlainn Seabrook
196 books23 followersBIOGRAPHY: World acclaimed Civil War scholar Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook is an award-winning Southern historian and a seventh generation Kentuckian. One of the most prolific and well respected writers in America today, and the leading popularizer of U.S. Civil War history, he is the multi-genre, neo-Victorian author and editor of 100 educational and enlightening books ranging from astronomy to zoology. Known by literary critics as "the new Shelby Foote," "the Southern Joseph Campbell," and "the American Robert Graves," and by his fans as "the Voice of the Traditional South," he has introduced hundreds of thousands to the truth about the War for Southern Independence. For more information or to purchase Colonel Seabrook's books visit us at www.SeaRavenPress.com
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June 6, 2017
Once again the truth is laid before you! These times see more and more people mistakenly think that anything to do with the confederacy, or the South during the Civil War is automatically racist and pro slavery. This little book goes a long way to show that such beliefs are totally wrong!
The author very clearly outlines each question in simple easy to follow paragraph form, addressing each erroneous, fallacious notion and setting the record straight. The following are just a few of the examples of this.
The cause of the war was so that the south could keep their slaves. Actually, the US congress passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing that slavery would be legal in all of the states, if the seceded states would just come back into the Union. None did, proving that it was not about slavery.
The Ku Klux Klan was a racist organization started by Nathan Bedford Forrest to harass, kill torture, and discriminate against the blacks.
Actually, the Ku Klux was founded by a group of men as a reaction to corrupt and illegal treatment of the carpetbaggers and not in any way anti black. In fact there was even an all Black chapter of the Klan in Nashville. Forrest did not even join until two years after the founding. Once Reconstruction was over, and there was no need for it anymore, Forrest decreed that the Klan disband, which it did. The racially biased Klan started in the North in the 20th century, and has nothing to do with the Southern Klan.
This little book of only 69 pages packs a wallop of information that anyone who has an open mind needs to read. Additionally, it has over four pages of detailed reference notes supporting the assertions found in the book. Another two pages of bibliography makes this diminutive tome a mighty soldier in the war against ignorance.
The author very clearly outlines each question in simple easy to follow paragraph form, addressing each erroneous, fallacious notion and setting the record straight. The following are just a few of the examples of this.
The cause of the war was so that the south could keep their slaves. Actually, the US congress passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing that slavery would be legal in all of the states, if the seceded states would just come back into the Union. None did, proving that it was not about slavery.
The Ku Klux Klan was a racist organization started by Nathan Bedford Forrest to harass, kill torture, and discriminate against the blacks.
Actually, the Ku Klux was founded by a group of men as a reaction to corrupt and illegal treatment of the carpetbaggers and not in any way anti black. In fact there was even an all Black chapter of the Klan in Nashville. Forrest did not even join until two years after the founding. Once Reconstruction was over, and there was no need for it anymore, Forrest decreed that the Klan disband, which it did. The racially biased Klan started in the North in the 20th century, and has nothing to do with the Southern Klan.
This little book of only 69 pages packs a wallop of information that anyone who has an open mind needs to read. Additionally, it has over four pages of detailed reference notes supporting the assertions found in the book. Another two pages of bibliography makes this diminutive tome a mighty soldier in the war against ignorance.
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