Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Primary Documents and Debates on Slavery, States' Rights, Secession, and Sectional ConflictBy Eugenia Dunlap Potts
Length1h 45m
About this audiobook
Eugenia Dunlap Potts's Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War is a documentary and interpretive study of the political, constitutional, economic, and sectional tensions that culminated in national conflict. Rather than presenting the war as the product of a single grievance, Potts assembles historical evidence and explanatory commentary to trace the gradual breakdown of compromise between North and South. Its prose combines the earnestness of popular historical writing with the organizing habits of nineteenth-century documentary scholarship: it is accessible, morally engaged, and attentive to speeches, public controversies, and the competing historical memories through which the conflict was understood. The volume belongs to the postwar literature of reconciliation and sectional interpretation, while also revealing the period's struggle to define responsibility for the war. Potts writes as a historically minded Southern woman confronting the enduring political and emotional consequences of the Civil War. Her interest in preserving testimony and clarifying causation likely arose from the proximity of the conflict to her generation and from the contested narratives that shaped its remembrance. Accordingly, the book is not merely a chronicle of events; it is an intervention in public memory, seeking to give coherence to a past still burdened by accusation, grief, and regional loyalty. Her perspective should be read critically, as both historical evidence and an example of postbellum interpretive culture. This book will reward readers interested in Civil War historiography, nineteenth-century political rhetoric, women's historical writing, and the formation of sectional memory. It is especially valuable when read alongside modern scholarship, which can test Potts's emphases while appreciating her documentary ambition and lucid historical purpose.
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GenreHistory
Length1 hr 45 mins
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Publish dateSep 16, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War (Annotated)
2The Old South
3Read Before the Lexington Chapter U.D.C., February 14, 1909, By Eugenia Dunlap Potts, Historian.
4Slavery
5Read March 14, 1909.
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6Secession
7Read April 11, 1909
8The Southern Confederacy
9Read May 11, 1909
10Memorable Quotes
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