Battle Lines was written by two authors named, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, it is a comic that focuses the history of the Civil War. Fetter-Vorm and Kelman decided to turn it into a story about politics as well as people. On each chapter, it guides the reader the entire history of the war from Confederate and Union soldiers to Southern wives to freedmen to protesting Irishmen. In Battle Lines, Fetter-Vorm and Kelman indicate that, “Beneath it all, beneath the weight of countless decisions, compromises, and challenges, there remained two irreconcilable beliefs: that all people were entitled to determine the course of their own lives and that some people should be allowed to make slaves of others.” (Fetter-Vorm&Kelman pg24). Certainly, …show more content…
Notably, the South was a region where tobacco and cotton were the economic strength of their agricultural region. As being wealthy and having the entitlement of the need to have an enslave is what revolved their lives. As an illustration, the authors, Fetter-Vorm and Kelman used regular people to illustrate their points of how the South wanted to claim their “freedom.” According to Fetter-Vorm and Kelman, “Whites in the South fought, without irony, for the freedom to own black people as slaves.” (pg24). This connect to Dred Scott Decision 1857 that, consequently, also complicated the causes of the Civil War. Dred Scott was a slave owned by a surgeon in the U.S. army, that sued for his freedom after the death of his owner. However, the Supreme Court disagreed when Scott claimed he should be emancipated since where he was living, slavery was illegal. Explicitly, Chief Justice Roger Taney, a former slave owner insists, “Blacks are so far inferior that they have no rights which the white man is bound to respect.” (pg21). With this in mind, it impacted the whites in the South’s lifestyle of how and what their freedom is, to an extent an enslaved is needed to meet their desires. In connecting, how the whites need enslaves in their life, on page 76 when Mags found Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation letter and read it to Joe, the truth was spilled. Mag read that, “………in any efforts they may make for their