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‘The Cause’ of the US Civil War

By John Spicer | Published in History Review 2004 
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John Spicer judges that slavery was the key factor in producing the conflict.

Daguerreotype of a New Orleans woman with her slave in the mid 19th centuryThe Issue of Slavery 


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