Armies of Deliverance
A New History of the Civil War
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Armies of Deliverance
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Narrated by:
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Paul Woodson
About this listen
Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims.
Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. As the war escalated, Lincoln and his allies built the case that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit the North and South alike. The theme of deliverance was essential in mobilizing a Unionist coalition of Northerners and anti-Confederate Southerners.
Confederates, fighting to establish an independent slaveholding republic, were determined to preempt, discredit, and silence Yankee appeals to the Southern masses. In their quest for political unity Confederates relentlessly played up two themes: Northern barbarity and Southern victimization. Casting the Union army as ruthless conquerors, Confederates argued that the emancipation of blacks was synonymous with the subjugation of the white South.
©2019 Oxford University Press (P)2019 TantorWhat I did like was that this focused on a broad story we often don’t realise and that is that Northerners did often see the bulk of white confederates as deluded victims of their oligarch oppressors. Sometimes that was true but other times it wasn’t which in itself is pretty interesting. Lots of interesting quotes, speeches and people who add to this story
A broad overview of the war from a different angle
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