American Civil War Quotes

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― Henry Freeman, American Civil War: A History From Beginning to End

“freedom, equality, and opportunity.”
― Henry Freeman, American Civil War: A History From Beginning to End

“the cause of the Civil War was not primarily the defense of slavery where it existed already, but the protection of the spread of slavery into new and future territories of the United States. Slavery was not only an extremely lucrative form of labor that was beneficial to the enormously profitable style of agriculture in the Deep South, but the internal slave trade was a big business onto itself. After the United States closed the African slave trade and forbade the importation of slaves in 1807, the four million slaves in the country themselves became much more valuable.”
― Henry Freeman, American Civil War: A History From Beginning to End