Slavery, secession, and Civil War

"W̃ith Slavery, Secession, and Civil War: Views from the United Kingdom and Europe, 1856-1865, noted historian Charles Adams assembles an extraordinary collection of articles - never before compiled and made available for easy study - written by foreign journalists during the American Civil War. Foreign observers wrote in an atmosphere of freedom, without the dangers that crippled and destroyed journalism in America. They were not failed or silenced by armed soldiers, mobs, or censorship. Futhermore, the Civil War was not their struggle, and, readers will discover by looking at the quarrel from a distance, foreign correspondents could see what Americans could not Slavery, Secession, and Civil War presents a broad sweep of views - from pro-North to pro-South - with foreign writers marshalling their arguments with facts and information." "Ãmong the many distinguished British journals represented are Blackwood's Magazine, The Saturday Review, Macmillan's Magazine, The Athenaeum, The Cornhill Magazine, The Economist, The Times, and two periodicals edited by Charles Dickens; Household Worlds and All the Year Round. There are translated articles from the French Lo Presse and Revue des deux monde, the Italian La Civilta Catolica and Scritti Editie Inediti, and the Spanish Pensamiento Espanol and La Iberta. More than one dozen political cartoons originally published in Punch are also included. Civil War historians and students will benefit from the fascinating observations afforded by the periodical literature offered."--BOOK JACKET.