This book was written after its author's retirement to the Gulf Coast at Beauvoir house in Mississippi.
Named answer requiredThe first chapter of this book claims that expansion of slavery to the West would actually facilitate emancipation and argues that a false dichotomy between "freedom" and "slavery" led to an unfair bias against slaveholders in foreign opinion. In addition to arguing at length that the Civil War was not motivated by slavery, this book defends its author's own actions as Secretary of (*) War. This book was written after its author's retirement to the Gulf Coast at Beauvoir house in Mississippi. Like the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, this book was published after the Civil War when its author was in financial difficulties, but it did not meet with the same initial success. For 10 points, name this book about the political and military history of the Confederacy written by Jefferson Davis.
Named answer requiredThe first chapter of this book claims that expansion of slavery to the West would actually facilitate emancipation and argues that a false dichotomy between "freedom" and "slavery" led to an unfair bias against slaveholders in foreign opinion.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government