The Bruce Levine's work "Confederate Emancipation Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War", a bait and switch title if I ever saw one, (and suprising published on time for this debate) gave some of his highest acknowledgements for helping him write his book this to....Edmund "Terry" Burke for helping him think about the book's subject in world-historical context. Edmund “Terry” Burke III, is Professor Emeritus of History at UC Santa Cruz, his expertise is Middle East Studies. He was quoted as comparing America's war on Iraq to the beginning of World War I, he said in a commentary, "I hear the guns of August". With experts like this giving input into the American Civil War no wonder there are contraversies in how this emotional history is being presented.

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David Upton