European views of the War to Prevent Southern Independence | Southern Nationalist Network

European views of the War to Prevent Southern Independence | Southern Nationalist Network:

"The following is a review by Dr Thomas DiLorenzo of Charles Adams’ book Slavery, Secession, and Civil War: Views from the UK and Europe, 1856—1865, a collection of magazine and journal articles about the War to Prevent Southern Independence by European authors.

Readers will be impressed, if not astounded, by the remarkably well-informed and extraordinarily articulate commentary in these articles. We don’t speak and write the English language like they used to. Nor are most Americans nearly as well informed about the facts of the war as these nineteenth-century European writers were. Several generations of American court historians have seen to that.

The idea for this book is quite innovative: Since the Northern press was heavily censored by the Lincoln regime, and the Southern press, regardless of how factual it may have been, is not believed by most Americans, the European journals are perhaps the only credible source of popular opinion on the war during the 1856—1865 period."