Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause Quotes

“The planters revolted from the United States in 1861 in the belief that fear of the loss of a cotton supply would also discourage the North from any action to arrest their departure from the Union,”
― Roger G. Kennedy, Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase

“The most important choices made by any single statesman for the future of the South arose from the preferences, prejudices, and policies of Thomas Jefferson.”
― Roger G. Kennedy, Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase