Punished with Poverty: The Suffering South

FROM THE AUTHORS of the Southern classic The South was Right!, comes one of the most important and original histories of the Southern people.

The South was destined to be a prosperous land with a self-governing people and its own culture. Instead, it is the most impoverished and powerless part of the U.S. From the beginning of the U.S. government in 1789, most egregiously in the calculated and malicious destruction by the invader during 1861-1865 and the looting of Reconstruction, and by go...