The Confederate and NeoConfederate R..., Edward H. Sebesta
The Confederate and NeoConfederate R..., Edward H. Sebesta
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The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader
The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause"

Author: Edward H. Sebesta, James W. Loewen

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 18 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/01/2019

Synopsis

Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans—including most history teachers—think the Confederate States seceded for "states' rights." This error persists because most have never read the key documents about the Confederacy.

These documents have always been there. When South Carolina seceded, it published "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union." The document actually opposes states' rights. Its authors argue that Northern states were ignoring the rights of slave owners as identified by Congress and in the Constitution. Similarly, Mississippi's "Declaration of the Immediate Causes . . . " says, "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world."

The 150th anniversary of secession and civil war provides a moment for all Americans to hear these documents, properly set in context by award-winning sociologist and historian James W. Loewen and coeditor, Edward H. Sebesta, to put in perspective the mythology of the Old South.

About Edward H. Sebesta

Edward H. Sebesta been researching the neo-Confederate movement and writing about it since the early 1990s. He is the author of Pernicious: The Neo-Confederate Campaign against Social Justice in America. Besides researching and writing about the neo-Confederates he is also an activist.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Martha on July 08, 2015

This is a book with a clear agenda (and how nice to read a book intended for use in school that states its agenda clearly and simply from the start!), and that, in large part, is to disprove the increasingly pervasive myth that the South seceded from the union to protect states' rights, and not to d......more

Goodreads review by Public on September 14, 2018

Why did it take so long for someone to write this book?? Edward Sebesta and James Loewen (writer of the excellent Lies My Teacher Told Me) present a much needed antidote to what has become mainstream thinking on the American Civil War. Have you ever heard someone say that the Civil War wasn't about s......more

Goodreads review by Philip on January 23, 2024

Back in July I said that whichever year I finished this book, it would be the most important book I read that year. Well, that year is this year. The book immediately distinguishes between history and historiography. ...historiography means "the study of history," but not just "studying history." His......more

Goodreads review by Bill on September 08, 2011

An important collection of primary documents, ranging from the 1820s to the 1990s, detailing the facts behind secession (I'll give you a hint: it was 99 and 44/100% purely about slavery) and the post war morphing of the cause to that of white supremacy and "states rights" (which is funny because an......more

Goodreads review by Robert on January 13, 2015

An excellent collection of documents for anyone interested in the history of obfuscation by white supremacists and Confederate apologists regarding the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Fusion. The declarations of secession are easy enough to find with a Google search, but there are many other document......more

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