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God Save the South: True American History With A Side of Southern Humor
249 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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March 16, 2022
3 stars because I picked it up looking for a Southern perspective on the Civil War, and I got exactly what I wanted. This is not the most thorough review but here are some quick thoughts.
There certainly are things that are excluded from Northern textbooks that ought not to be. We have a tendency to pick and choose the history we want to hear. However, Gipson seems to make the same mistake he accuses the North of making.
He knows his history and I certainly learned a good deal m, but he treats the role slavery played in this conflict rather flippantly. Yes, states rights were important to the South but what was the primary state right they fought to preserve?
This quote from the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stevens, (which he included in the book) answers this long fought over question rather succinctly:
“Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition.”
Overall, a read I would recommend as supplemental to other readings on the “Slaveholders Rebellion” as Frederick Douglas called the Civil War.
There certainly are things that are excluded from Northern textbooks that ought not to be. We have a tendency to pick and choose the history we want to hear. However, Gipson seems to make the same mistake he accuses the North of making.
He knows his history and I certainly learned a good deal m, but he treats the role slavery played in this conflict rather flippantly. Yes, states rights were important to the South but what was the primary state right they fought to preserve?
This quote from the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stevens, (which he included in the book) answers this long fought over question rather succinctly:
“Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition.”
Overall, a read I would recommend as supplemental to other readings on the “Slaveholders Rebellion” as Frederick Douglas called the Civil War.
August 7, 2021
This book really gives one a new perspective on commonplace histories.
December 13, 2021
While the historical claims are rather dubious, the book is written in an engaging style.
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