![]() ![]() In ten remarkably efficient pages, McPherson dismantled arguments that the war was fought over tariffs, states' rights, or the abstract principle of secession. McPherson pointed out that during the war, “few people in either North or South would have dissented” from Lincoln's slavery-oriented account of the war's origins. Writing for the popular Civil War magazine North and South in November 2000, James M. Public statements by preeminent historians reaffirmed that slavery's centrality had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Few mainstream scholars would deny that Abraham Lincoln got it right in his second inaugural address-that slavery was “somehow” the cause of the war. ![]() ![]() Professional historians can be an argumentative lot, but by the dawn of the twenty-first century, a broad consensus regarding Civil War causation clearly reigned. ![]()
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