# Jefferson Davis as a war president

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Benjamin was also a noted legal scholar. After the fall of the Confederacy, he excaped to Britain where he wrote the classic text on “Sale of Goods.” [Benjamin’s Sale of Goods](http://www.wildy.com/isbn/9781847037183/benjamin-s-sale-of-goods-7th-ed-) is now in the 7th edition, with an 8th on the way.

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