"These slaveowners, these rebels, have led the South into the Civil War ... to be the nature of the Southern economy after the war. If the plantations remain intact, it'll still be an aristocratic ...

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice and indigo plantations ... Civil War – the bloodiest four years in American history. The Civil War devastated South ...

"These slaveowners, these rebels, have led the South into the Civil War ... to be the nature of the Southern economy after the war. If the plantations remain intact, it'll still be an aristocratic ...