Critique of Topsy Turvy

I bought this to read, then for Dixie's homeschool and it is as stated, maybe worst. The author's bias becomes apparent immediately. I'll have to take it to the range.
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Topsy-Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children (American Childhoods Series)

I bought Topsy Turvy under the impression that it would be a book of true history. Instead, its contents live up to its cover, a cover which captures a drawing from Uncle Tom's Cabin, a hate-stirring novel by another imaginative female novelist I have now concluded the reading of Jabour's work dealing with the "same old, same old--same song, millionth verse."- Jabour's book is just another echo of all that politically correct historians have spewed forth since Lincoln, his Marxist buddies, and their newly imported, hired guns, non-English speaking foreigners destroyed the heart and brain of America and converted the Republic with its Constitutional law into a joke called Karl Marx's Democracy .

Jabour does sprinkle a few historical facts about on the pages of her "hysterical novel," but for the most part she writes not for readers seeking truth, but for the liberated, beguiled women in "women gender" history classes. Those students are programmed to appreciate her digs at white Southern children and their supposedly horrifically prejudiced, slave-torturing mamas. Can it be that Jabour does not know that northern slave owners, once they acquired white bondsmen (slaves, really) and bonds-kids or Scot and Irish folks to work for pennies in their factories, dumped (for bucks) their black slaves on the South? Those northern factory owners needed Southern cotton--so of course the north benefited by exporting black slaves south.

Jabour does not confess this truth. Her research may not have been thorough enough to reveal it. She seems to have depended only on the "approved" findings of other not too honest researchers and writers out to make a buck. She may not even know that northerners owned both white slaves and black ones and were harsh owners--undoubtedly more harsh than were 99.8 percent of Southern owners of blacks. Jabour's failure to research and mention northerners' slavery role is not surprising-- books reporting hideous treatment of the north's slaves neither sell nor earn academic distinctions for their authors.

There are even today vast numbers of northerners who have no knowledge that there was a slave plantation once in the very heart of New York (revealed by recently discovered skeletons). Jabour may be unaware that the slave ships were only northern ones-- not Southern ships--and those northern ships never flew a Confederate flag. The U.S. flag is the flag of slavery, just as is the British flag, the Danish flag, the Italian flag, the Spanish flag--practically all the flags of all the nations in the world, including South American flags and flags of African nations and lands inhabited by Muslims. The flags of all these nations once flew over slave ships.

Evidently Jabour does not know Louisiana had thousands of freed black people years before Mr. Lincoln's term of office--and that Louisiana's free blacks were educated and prosperous. Is it not odd how the wildly acclaimed historians seem so unaware that emancipation began in the South long before the Marxists and their buddies, the crazed abolitionists, started the Republican Party?

Jabour makes quite a big deal contending that white daughters of Confederate mothers merely reflected a parent's perverted views. Children can absorb parental beliefs? What an earth-shaking, psychological revelation! -

It follows then that Jabour must conclude the daughters of the morally superior northerners, also, mirrored the beliefs of their parents and thus, the children of some northern preachers thought, as did their papas, that all Southern preachers should be hung by the neck until dead. (Marxist propagandists were experts!) General Sherman and Mrs. Sherman's kids, then, must have believed that all Southern women and children (of a certain class) should be eliminated--and the entire South turned into ashes. General Grant (a Marxist approved U.S. President) and his family held black slaves even after the end of the U.S. war. Does this mean the Grant children thought slavery o.k.? Members of Mr. Lincoln's U.S. Senate voted to torture helpless Confederate prisoners, starve them to death, have them shot, freeze them, etc. --so must we believe that the children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. of those men agreed that prisoners should be tortured if they were Southerners? (To think that some northerners today have complained about prisoners having their heads dipped in buckets!)

A Southern holocaust and cultural genocide was created by noble northerners, so, Jabour must conclude that the north's children reflecting their parents' views believed the holocaust in the South and the genocide there perfectly justified-- in fact, hunky dory! If that kind of thinking is not topsy turvy, what is?

The Communist brainwashing goes on and on and comes out here--in the Jabour text.

I consider the Jabour book nothing more than another hate-mongering work of the very type created back in the 1800's by skilled Marxist-Communist propagandists. Perhaps Jabour is an innocent who thinks she is telling the truth, but she is merely repeating the exact lies circulated by the hundreds of 1848ers (Communists) who wrote propaganda for northern newspapers and journals as part of the continuation in America of their failed Socialist Revolution in Europe. Karl Marx, himself, wrote regularly for the New York Tribune, does Jabour know that?

Joan Hough "Joan Hough"

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Critique of Topsy Turvy