Article by Walter Williams: Navajos in the Civil War
BOOKS OF HISTORICAL FICTION WRITTEN BY W.L. WILLIAMS
Map from the US Census of 1860, showing the percentage of black people in each county of the South.
Map from the US Census of 1860, showing the percentage of black people in each county of the South.
Map from the US Census of 1860, showing the percentage of black people in each county of the South.
Note the concentration of enslaved persons in South Carolina, the Mississippi River valley, eastern Virginia, and the central parts of Georgia and Alabama. Each of these areas voted for secession. In contrast, note the relative lack of African Americans in Appalachia (western Virginia and North Carolina, eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, north Georgia and Alabama). Appalachia was mostly Unionist during the Civil War, which is evidence for slavery being the cause of Southern secession.
Map from the US Census of 1860, showing the percentage of black people in each county of the South.
Map from the US Census of 1860, showing the percentage of black people in each county of the South.
Confederates risked war hoping more slave states would join
THE UNION HAD FOUR TIMES THE POPULATION OF THE CONFEDERACY
