A Defence of Virginia, and through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests against the Sectional Party

The 13th amendment to the Constitution, officially abolishing slavery in the United States of America, was passed in December of 1865 after over two centuries of slavery in this young country. Two years later, Dabney published A Defence of Virginia, a litigious document expressing the other viewpoint to a subject so intensely dividing that it sparked the American Civil War. Exposing an opposing view of Abraham Lincoln’s idea that slavery is wrong, this book shows a theologian’s earnest belief, based on his biblical studies, that slavery is condoned by God. Although the debate itself is now antiquated, the book is a fascinating and historically important resource.