"Why Non-Slaveholders Fought for the Confederacy"
Historian Greg Downs describes the motivations that drove non-slaveholding white Southerners to fight for the Confederacy and to protect slavery.
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Source | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2010.
Creator | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
Producer | Maceo June
Speaker | Greg Downs
Rights | Copyright American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Item Type | Podcast
Cite This document | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, “"Why Non-Slaveholders Fought for the Confederacy",” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed December 3, 2023, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1748.
Creator | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
Producer | Maceo June
Speaker | Greg Downs
Rights | Copyright American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Item Type | Podcast
Cite This document | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, “"Why Non-Slaveholders Fought for the Confederacy",” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed December 3, 2023, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1748.
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