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Non-Fiction

krispos42

(49,445 posts) Mon Dec 12, 2011, 02:40 AM Dec 2011

http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-American-Civil-War-Sacrifice/dp/0819571385/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323675251&sr=1-1

Fascinating book. I had no idea that Connecticut was considered "The Georgia of New England".

The perspective on slavery is both fascinating and repulsive. The amount of brainpower they spend justifying this... scary.