Publisher's Synopsis
This is the 6th and final book of this series. I covers the period 1800-1950 including the War of 1812, Mexican War, War to prevent Southern Independence and touches briefly on WWII as they affect the line of the P-R-S family through which I descend. This period is well documented; and in some cases, highly distorted in the self-image of the United States because it is clear that events of this period are still actively associated with current political interests. I try to focus on primary documents rather than accepted history books and I find that there is a substantial distortion of various facts (often by omission) in what is widely believed. I have written other books focusing on the Old South and the institution of slavery and relations between slaves and slave holders, which go into some of these topics in more detail. In particular, I focus on the economic system of slavery and why it was becoming unprofitable in the mid-1800s and (in my opinion) would have spontaneously been abandoned in the late-1800s in favor of a system of free labor. The end result would have been essentially the same share-cropper system that appeared after 1865; but importantly without the racial friction caused by the War (which I think was totally avoidable).
