Myths simply throw roadblocks in the path to enlightenment,… - William C. Davis

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Myths simply throw roadblocks in the path to enlightenment, and it is from truth that we have the most to learn. One man's truth, however, can be another's myth, and only through dispassionate and disinterested dissection of such stories can we tell the difference. The Confederate experience is dotted with episodes that are not particularly admirable.

William C. Davis

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William Charles Davis (born 1946) is an American historian from the U.S. state of Virginia, known for his writings on the American Civil War.

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The only substantial difference between them, and the one that divided them politically almost since birth, was their system of labor.

It is impossible to point to any other local issue but slavery and say that Southerners would have seceded and fought over it.

The secession and the Confederacy's existence were predicated on slavery, on preserving and defending it against containment, as virtually all of its founders from Robert Barnwell Rhett to Jefferson Davis unashamedly declared in 1861.

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