Read by John McLain

Was the Civil War really about slavery? Or was it a war fought over money? Civil War historian Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. (Vicksburg, Bust Hell Wide Open) opens his fascinating new book, It Wasn't About Slavery, with Dr. Grady McWhiney's claim that "what passes as standard American history is really Yankee history written by New Englanders or their puppets to glorify Yankee heroes and ideals." Relying on nineteenth-century sources, Mitcham lays out his case that slavery was not the primary cause of the Civil War and that the Civil War narrative taught in schools today is wildly misleading. INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER I SLAVERY AND THE YANKEE FLESH PEDDLERCHAPTER II HYPOCRISYCHAPTER III SECESSION: THE CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUECHAPTER IV PREGNANT EVENTSCHAPTER V THE NULLIFICATION CRISISCHAPTER VI CULTURAL DIFFERENCESCHAPTER VII AGITATION AND COMPROMISECHAPTER VIII THE CHASM GROWSCHAPTER IX JOHN BROWN, TERRORIST AND LIGHTNING RODCHAPTER X THE ELECTION OF 1860CHAPTER XI THE REAL CAUSE OF THE WARCHAPTER XII LINCOLN AND HIS AGENDACHAPTER XIII OVER THE EDGE CHAPTER XIV TYRANNY AND EMANCIPATIONCHAPTER XV THE COSTS AND RESULTS OF THE WAR "Dr. Samuel Mitcham has nailed down this myth for all times for those who have the honesty to hear the evidence. If it was about one thing, the war was about money, the intent of the ruling elements of the North to keep their profitable control of Southern land and people."

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