The South Was Right! | James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald Kennedy

The South Was Right! | James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald Kennedy | Since the War for Southern Independence We Have Stopped Fighting for the Constitution

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The South Was Right!

	The South Was Right! James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald Kennedy Pelican Publishing Company, 1994 - 431 pages average customer review:based on 205 reviews view larger image
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An authoritative and documented study of the mythology behind Civil War history, clearly exhibiting how the South was an independent country invaded, captured, and still occupied by a vicious aggressor.

This book busts every myth and revision produced against Southern history

It always annoyed me how countries including France and England would constantly mock Americans for our lack of appreciation, understanding, or simple knowledge of our own history.
However, who could say they were wrong? During the last few decades of the last century and well into this one nearly every American including student as well as teacher knew any of the facts regarding the true history of the Confederate States of America and especially their cause.
The multiple choice upon every test was A. Slavery B. Slavery C. Slavery. It is ironic that one of the biggest reasons Americans hate communism is because those who live in communist countries do not learn any truth except for government propaganda. Yet, it is no different here in America as far as the teaching and learning of the Civil War goes.
There are two popular myths that we are taught as children, two myths that are as far from the truth as any. 1. The South seceded from the US to preserve slavery. 2. The North fought against the South to emancipate the slaves.
However, when open minded and truth obsessed researchers including James and Walter Kennedy dive into all the documents, accounts, letters, and testimonies from the periods of 1861-1865, they learned and now have published that what we all thought we knew about the Civil War was nothing but myths.
They give us a compelling case against the North's invasion of the Southern States. They give us accounts spoken and written by the men and women from the North and South, retelling their true positions regarding the causes and the conflict.
The Kennedy's also dispel the myths that Southerners fought to preserve slavery. They do this through including quotes and accounts of hundreds of Southern citizens both white and black.
NO OTHER biographer of the Civil War, even including Bruce Canton or James McPhearson, has ever given the public so true and authentic history of the War Between the States as this book. So far those and other historians have written their texts based on modern ideas, timeless myths, and personal prejudice towards one side of the conflict or the other.
However, The South Was Right gives us an unbiased, brave, and again, authentic representation of Secession, slavery, independence, invasion, and sacrifice.
I recommend this to ANYONE who has ANY interest in the true history of the Civil War.

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Since the War for Southern Independence We Have Stopped Fighting for the Constitution

The men and women of the Southern States (including Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri) were willing to once again risk life, limb, and property to fight for the rights guaranteed in the US Consitution. This indeed is what they fought for. Imagine joining voluntarily into a "union" that would not allow you to leave, even though the "unifying" document gave you the right to leave.

Tyranny is defined as, "oppressive government: oppressive government by one or more people who exercise absolute power cruelly and unjustly." This is precisely what the northern led US goverment was and still is. Freedom lost in 1865 and tyranny won. The fact that we now have close to 300 million people the majority of who love their "peace" and personal affluence more than they love freedom is a shame, but indeed a product of the outcome of the Second War for Independence ("Civil War").

Instead of sitting around thumping our chest about how much "history" we know, why don't we think about returning to the spirit of the original American patriots and their Southern counterparts of 85 years later. We are all now beholden to this behemoth central, tyrannical goverment and we all have egg on our faces as we decide what to do with our "economic stimulous package" as we wait to vote for one of three presidential candiates all of whom would have been hung for treason in 1776-1861.

The condition of our nation and the fact that those who fought for adherence to the Constitution are now maligned is a national shame. I do not care whether you are now a "northerner" or a "Southerner." We have all largely sold out and are all "slaves" to a tyrannical central power. If that outcome is "right" then indeed we are in the days like those of which Scripture speaks, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isa 5:20).

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Interesting, but touchy subject

Assuming of course that the facts are true, this book is extremely interesting for its facts, timelines, and 'no holds barred' look at the issues of the civil war. It is therefore interesting legally and historically.

However, knowing that the subject matter is extremely controversial, the authors really do not say enough that slavery was wrong, and considering that most examinations of this subject deal with the moral issues of slavery and subjugation, they seem to have glossed over the issue far to rapidly. In a world where the discrimination and persecution of African Americans is still too raw and real, a cursory denouncement of the reasons for slavery is insufficient. In some parts they provide justifications from others that slavery was not wrong, presenting the idea that perhaps it was tolerable or decent - which is completely unacceptable and unpalatable.

The book also does not even attempt to hide its bias. It is a vehement attack on the North without any mincing of words, and strays uncomfortably close at times to stating 'two wrongs make a right.' Even if the majority of books on the topic were pro-North, or portrait the 'yankee myth of history,' a staunchly pro-Southern book just perpetrates the same wrongs in reverse!

It is extremely important to understand the justifications that the opposition uses for their actions. I am of the opinion that extremely few people act knowing or believing themselves to be in the wrong. This book is perfect for that purpose.

It has not, nor ever would, convince me that the south was morally correct, though the legal arguments that they had the right to seceed are interesting and raise the question if the same ability exists for any or all states to this day.

Consequently, because I felt the book strayed a little, repeated itself somewhat, and washed its hands of the moral issue, I can't rate it any higher than three stars.

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