Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government Analysis

To support his argument, Blight references Davis’s defense of states’ rights, secession, and his mystical conception of the Confederacy that gave ideological fuel to diehards. Much of what Blight derives from Davis’s two volume memoir The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. He uses Davis’s own words against him as Davis wrote about the blacks,
There, put to servitude, they were trained in the gentle arts of peace and order and civilization; they increased from a few unprofitable savages to millions of efficient Christian laborers. Their servile instincts rendered them contented with their lot, and their patient toil blessed the land of their abode with unmeasured riches. …Never was there happier dependence of labor and capital on