Emancipation Hell: The Tragedy Wrought By the Emancipation Proclamation 150 Years Ago
Kirkpatrick Sale is an independent scholar and the author of twelve books, including SDS (Random House), Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy (Knopf), Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution (Addison Wesley), and After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination (Duke University).  He has been a contributor to magazines and newspapers from coast to coast, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Charleston Post & Courier,  Newsweek, The Nation, Mother Jones, New York Review of Books, The American Conservative, Chronicles, Vermont Commons, Counterpunch.com, and Lewrockwell.com. He has written introductions to Leopold Kohr’s Breakdown of Nations, E. E. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, Tobias Lanz’s Beyond Capitalism and Socialism, and Thomas Naylor’s Secession and contributed essays to more than twenty other books. He was an officer of the PEN American Center for many years, was a founder and officer of the E.F. Schumacher Society, and is currently the director of the Middlebury Institute (MiddleburyInstitute.org).  A profile appears in Wikipedia (Wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkpatricksale).  He lives in Mt. Pleasant, SC.