Slavery and Its Discontents by Jared Taylor

Jared Taylor's essay "Slavery and Its Discontents" argues that the contemporary, often condemnatory view of American slavery as the nation's "original sin" is an oversimplification and a distortion of history.
He contends that this perspective, which demands the vilification of historical figures like George Washington, Robert E. Lee, and Thomas Jefferson, stems from a modern "compulsion to treat history like a morality play" rather than a balanced academic study.
Taylor points to J. C. Furnas's 1959 book, The Road to Harpers Ferry, as an example of a more nuanced historical analysis that predated this trend.