Jefferson Davis by Cory Gideon Gunderson
I'm having a hard time with this book. Do we need biographies of Confederate leaders? Yes. We need to know about and understand that history. Do we need to be really careful about what/ how they say things? Yes. Here are parts that I marked to think about as I read this book. _____________________________ Some people see Jefferson as a hero who led a brave fight to keep the Southern states free. Others see him as a stubborn, foolish leader of a war that resulted in death for more than 600,000 Americans. p4 Varina was a mature, intelligent 17-year-old woman. p15 (This is the GIRL/ CHILD that Davis married.) Jefferson felt strongly about slavery. He believed that Southerners had the right to own slaves and that the North should mind its own business. He reasoned that slaves were simply property that some Southerners owned. Jefferson feared that freed slaves would take white people's jobs or property, marry white women, or become criminals. He believed freed slaves could no...