Skip to main content
Home

User menu logged out

  • Subscribe
  • Sign in

Subscription
Offers

Give a Gift

Main menu

  • Home
  • The Magazine
  • Subscribe
  • Buy the Current Issue
  • Explore the Digital Archive
  • Institutions
  • Reviews
  • Sign in
Home

Mini header menu

  • Search
  • Magazine
  • Latest
  • Subscribe

Subscribe

‘The Cause’ of the American Civil War

John Spicer judges that slavery was the key factor in producing the conflict.

John Spicer | Published in History Review Issue 49 September 2004

Daguerreotype of a New Orleans woman with her slave in the mid 19th century

To continue reading this article you need to purchase a subscription, available from only £5.

Start my trial subscription now

If you have already purchased access, or are a print & archive subscriber, please ensure you are logged in.

Please email digital@historytoday.com if you have any problems.

American Civil WarMilitaryPoliticalAbraham Lincoln

Popular articles

‘Mrs Fish and the Misses Fox: the original mediums of the mysterious noises...’, c.1852. Library of Congress. Public Domain.
The Birth of Spiritualism
Historiated initial with a self-portrait of William de Brailes, the De Brailes Hours, c.1240. British Library/Bridgeman Images.
How Medieval Scribes Balanced the Books

Recently published

‘Mrs Fish and the Misses Fox: the original mediums of the mysterious noises...’, c.1852. Library of Congress. Public Domain.
The Birth of Spiritualism
Historiated initial with a self-portrait of William de Brailes, the De Brailes Hours, c.1240. British Library/Bridgeman Images.
How Medieval Scribes Balanced the Books
The Portuguese slaver Diligenté captured by H.M. Sloop Pearl, Lieutenant Henry Samuel Hawker, May 1838. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Public Domain.
‘The Heretic of Cacheu’ and ‘Worlds of Unfreedom’ review

Most read

  1. The Birth of Spiritualism
  2. How Medieval Scribes Balanced the Books
  3. The Practical Mysticism of Evelyn Underhill
  4. Charles de Gaulle is Sentenced to Death
  5. ‘The Heretic of Cacheu’ and ‘Worlds of Unfreedom’ review
X
Get Miscellanies, our free weekly long read, in your inbox every week

Footer menu

  • About
  • Masthead
  • Contact
  • Jobs
  • Advertising
  • RSS feeds
  • Submit an Article
  • Back Issues
  • Binders
  • Cookie policy
  • Awards
  • Students
  • Privacy policy
  • Terms of Use
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Bluesky
  • Facebook

© Copyright 2025 History Today Ltd. Company no. 1556332.