The Civil War Of Sex
June, 1987
The Civil War, or so we learned in high school, was fought over the issue of slavery. Our teacher, Miss Velma Johnson, whose understanding of American history was based entirely on the same textbooks we were reading, also told us as a fact that the Civil War ended in 1865. But lately it has dawned on me that Miss Johnson was wrong on both counts.It now seems clear that the Civil War wasn't so much fought over the issue of slavery as it was fought over a fundamental difference in the way Southern...
