Freedom National

11 January 2024: “The real moral dilemma of the Civil War, however, arises from the fact that it was about slavery; the tragedy of the war lies not in its pointlessness, but in its necessity” (Oakes xvi).

Really moved by this passage from Oakes's book, which I've been reading for my entry on Slavery and Abolition.

Work Cited

Oakes, James. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865. W.W. Norton, 2013.