Slavery Secession and Civil War

Noted historian Charles Adams has assembled an extraordinary collection of articles-never before collected and made available for easy study-written by foreign journalists at the time of the U.S. Civil War. These journals are a fount of insights about the war and readers will be rewarded with a new appreciation for the views of contemporary foreign observers of America's war. Readers will realize that the Europeans seemed to know more about America's quarrel as they liked to call the war than previously thought possible.<BR /><BR />Foreign observers wrote in an atmosphere of freedom without the dangers that crippled and destroyed journalism in America. Foreign writers were not arrested and locked up; nor were foreign journals silenced by armed soldiers mobs or by censorship of the mails nor were their editors hauled off to prison. Also the American Civil War was not their struggle and as the reader will discover by looking at the quarrel from a distance the foreign correspondents could see what Americans at the scene could not. A broad sweep of views running from pro-North to pro-South with foreign writers marshalling their arguments with facts and information that had come to their attention is presented.