Charles B. Dew is Ephraim Williams Professor of American History at Williams College and the author of The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade (Virginia) and Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge, selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
“Dew has produced an eye-opening study. . . . So much for states’
rights as the engine of secession.” —James M. McPherson, New York
Review of Books
“This is an important study, meticulously researched and
convincingly argued.” —James Oliver Horton, author of The Landmarks
of African American History
“This incisive history should dispel the pernicious notion that the
Confederacy fought the Civil War to advance the constitutional
principle of states’ rights and only coincidentally to preserve
slavery.” —Allen d. Boyer, New York Times Book Review
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