Walter Donald Kennedy Books

Argues that the South was within its rights to secede and is still treated like a conquered land

WITH THE ONGOING ATTACK upon all traditional American values, not the least of which are all things Southern, this work is a call for Americans to stand up for the real America. Within the cover of this book there is a compilation of articles addressing the neo-Marxist attack upon traditional American values-values America's Founding Fathers bequeath to us. This compilation of articles is taken from the author's work as Chief of Heritage Operations for the Sons of Confederate Veterans with additional commentary and supporting information. As the co-author of The South Was Right!, Walter D. Kennedy has always held that the South was right in 1861 because America was right in 1776. Topics include how a free people are to be governed, the religious foundation of traditional America values, as well as a plan to rescue a once free people from ever-growing big government.

From the authors of The South was Right! comes a new edition of what one historian calls one of the most important and original histories of the Southern people. Punished with Poverty tells the unvarnished story of the intentional policy of economic devastation and exploitation of the South which has affected all Southerners, both black and white, long after the close of the "Civil War" and "Reconstruction." In fact, the sad legacy of these punitive policies continues to this very day. The over-arching theme of Southern history is not Race, as is conventionally stated, but Poverty-poverty not due to the South's shortcomings, but imposed on them by the system under which they live.Punished with Poverty is a timely and much needed contribution to the understanding of both the South and the nature of the "Federal Empire" under which all Americans now live.

Jefferson Davis was a proponent of the high road to emancipation. He looked to the day in which slaves would be prepared to live within and participate in a democratic society. He did more than advocate for the high road to emancipation—as this book documents, he practiced his belief in the ultimate emancipation of Southern slaves. Many of his former slaves left for posterity their testimony about their former master—a master who prepared them for freedom as self-sustaining members of society.The North’s ruling elites justified their invasion, conquest, and occupation of the Confederate States of America by declaring that the South was fighting to preserve slavery and that secession was treason. After the unfortunate end of the War for Southern Independence, the United States arrested President Jefferson Davis on charges of treason. Davis demanded a trial, yet the United States never brought Davis to trial—why? Were they afraid they would lose in court? Davis, and through him the South, was unjustly tried in the court of public opinion—a court controlled by the North’s ruling elites.This book gives the defense that Davis and the South never had.