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Book Report on Michael Shaara's
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“The Killer Angels”
Michael Shaara’s historical yet fictional account of the American Civil War is a doctrine which attempts to expose the true purposes of the Confederate’s secession from its union. The Killer Angels highlights the true difference between the Union and Confederate attitudes at a time of confusion and change. Shaara successfully reveals the main motives which would cause the common Southern man, in 1860, to be willing to partake in a war for his country’s freedom. The first reason, which was often seen as the only reason by northerners and foreigners, is the legitimacy of slavery, in the homeland and within the territories. A plantation man would fight to keep his work hands and his property, which in his mind, included hi
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