Wednesday 7 October 2009
Slavery and Emancipation
The radical historian Howard Zinn writes here about the American Civil War, fought, ostensibly, to free the slaves. Histories writted since 1865 have portrayed Abraham Lincoln as a heroic saviour. The truth, as always, is more ambiguous. Read this essay and make your own minds up.
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