This eight-page paper presents a detailed discussion about the slavery in America leading up to the Civil War era. The author of this paper takes us on a tour of the slavery issue and the civil war from two perspectives, both the revisionist and the traditionalist camps. We get an inside peek of the problems and attributes that each side contributes to the topic and we come away with a much more clear understanding of the slavery issue from two perspectives. 8 pgs. Bibliography lists 5 sources.