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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is a book written by Jefferson Davis, who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the causes that he believed led to and justified ...
Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War .
There is a misconception that Jefferson Davis, the leader of the Confederacy, was outraged by Stephens's admission that slavery was the reason behind the slave states' secession, for Davis himself was attempting to garner foreign support for the nascent regime from countries that were not very accepting of slavery. However, there is no evidence ...
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Holmes in 1820, referred to slavery as a “great reproach” and commented on the challenges of ending it, observing that it was gripping a “wolf by the ...
Whereas the original U.S. Constitution did not use the word "slavery" or the term "Negro Slaves" [26] but instead used "Person[s] held to Service or Labour," [27] which included whites and Native Americans in indentured servitude, the Confederate Constitution addresses the legality of slavery directly and by name. [28]
More than 200 resolutions with respect to slavery, [6] including 57 resolutions proposing constitutional amendments, [7] were introduced in Congress. Most represented compromises designed to avert military conflict. Senator Jefferson Davis proposed one that explicitly protected property rights in slaves. [7]
The University of Virginia suspended a campus tour program that had been criticized for citing school founder Thomas Jefferson's ties to slavery, officials said Friday.
Hudson Strode wrote a widely read scholarly three-volume biography of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, published in the 1950s and 1960s. A leading scholarly journal that reviewed it stressed Strode's political biases: His [Jefferson Davis's] enemies are devils, and his friends, like Davis himself, have been canonized.