John Dewar Gleissner

John Dewar Gleissner graduated from Auburn University and Vanderbilt Law School. Since 1977, he has been practicing law in Alabama, specializing in insurance defense litigation and other civil cases. After graduating from law school, he began studying history as a hobby. With the advent of the internet, access to historical information increased markedly, and he began writing law review articles, internet articles, Quora answers, books, and ebooks. He has two daughters, two grandsons, and a son-in-law.

Truth About the Old South: A Case for African American Exceptionalism contains over 400 excerpts from the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives and Black leaders and scholars who speak from a pro-American and pro-plantation perspective. Many former slaves were devout Christians who looked back on their bondage with nostalgia. Booker T. Washington, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, and Frederick Douglass join in this book Drs. Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, John McWhorter, Robert Fogel, and Stanley Engerman to refute the role of slavery in modern pathologies. Government interference, not highly productive, efficient plantations, caused the most misery for African Americans. Civil rights statutes improved labor markets for African Americans and included African Americans more fully in the rule of law.

African Americans became the most accomplished, wealthy, and famous African-descended people in the African Diaspora, just as Booker T. Washington wrote in 1901. Truth About the Old South proves this wisdom once again. Only 3.63% of Africans brought across the Atlantic Ocean as slaves came to what is now the USA, but by 1860, half of the slaves in the New World lived in the USA. This unknown statistic and the slave narratives liberals have been disparaging and ignoring for 84 years--the ones saying good things about their former owners--refutes the victimhood of BLM, CRT, and the 1619 Project.