Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction - Paperback

by Adam Rothman (Author)

Most historians of the American Civil War have reached a vague agreement on slavery -- that it somehowcaused the American Civil War. In this essay, Adam Rothman takes a look at recent historiography that attempts to clarify not only how exactly this came about, but also why the Confederacy lost and slavery ended.

Author Biography

Adam Rothman is associate professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (2005).