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Ry Rob Sherwood
Events Coordinator
The Civil War was America’s deadliest war, claiming the lives of 620,000 combatants and an unknown number of civilians. Historians call it the first “modem” or “total” war in that the main factor in victory was the industrial potential of the victorious side. The war tore America apart, pitting region against region, family against family, and sometimes brother against brother.
Both sides claimed to be fighting to uphold the American ideals that emerged from the Revolutionary War: political liberty, equality; and self-government. But clearly the issue of slavery smoldered at the heart of the conflict. No issue has been as divisive in American history as the issue of slavery in the South.
As early as 1783, as they suffered through the stultifying heat of a Philadelphia summer, the founding fathers spent nearly one-quarter of their time hopelessly deadlocked over how to regard the slave’s place in American society. This unresolved issue was to haunt the body politic for the next 85 years—as time and again Northern and Southern factions in the national Congress hammered out a series of arduous compromises hoping to avert war.
Focusing on four of these compromises, on John Brown’s Raid, and on the LincolnDouglas Debates of 1860, the Blue Ridge Civil War Round Table plans a grand debate on the causes of the Civil War at its next meeting, which is Tuesday, Nov. 19. Arguing from both the Southern and the Northern perspective, seven members of the round table will debate the significance and the consequences of these key events leading to the war:
1. The Missouri Com pro
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