Robert E. Lee was a traitor, a brute and a slaver who wouldn't even trade black union soldiers taken prisoner for the lives of his own men because he saw black people as property to be owned.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/ …
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It drives me up the wall when people say the war was about states’ rights and neglect to mention *which* states rights in particular were so important to the southern states that they were willing to fight a war over them. (It was slavery.)
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I don't get it either. We're not talking about speculation here. It's not oral or anecdotal history. They literally wrote it down - in official documents. And more than once.
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Yes, the overwhelming reason for the secession was the impending spectre of abolition, but the union absolutely was NOT fighting about slavery, so saying the war was about slavery is an outright lie. The war was about denying the ability to secede.
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OK. I wouldn't call it a lie, though. The reason they went to war was because they were not allowed to secede from the Union. Which still leaves slavery as the cause for wanting to secede in the first place.
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But slavery was exactly zero percent of the reason the Union was fighting. So saying the war was about slavery is either a deliberate lie, or foundational ignorance.
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I don’t want to speak for these guys, but they might disagree with that statement.pic.twitter.com/N5YfU94Wj3
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Yea but,then the truth destroys their talking point. These R the same people that claim that "the enslaved were treated well". It's a waste of time 2have any form of conversation about facts with these types.
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And that is the American way. You believe what the elite say or we'll slam you down, again.
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It was night school at a small city’s State College. Not particularly elite.
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Great point. Our History books have always been wrong.
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History is written by the victors. We won't ever really know for sure how people really felt back then. However, I assume the rich were like they are today, manipulate the poor to further their own cause.
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It was written in their constitution- We don’t have to speculate.
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and this JUST happened. That's why we do have to respond every time Trump or another puts this issue back in the news.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/whitewashing-civil-war-history-for-young-minds/2015/07/06/1168226c-2415-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html?utm_term=.3e8e625117eb …
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What was ironic is that though many States did use States rights as a rally call to get more fighters, the confederate constitution actually gave more power to the central Government. Many State Governors complained about the Central CONF GOV interfering with state rights.
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I know. The modern revisionist historians who pander to the splintered “identity politics” groups are telling a story that WE like much better.
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It was.. an issue that dates back to the constitution.. also the south didn’t like the idea of expansion.. which Lincoln did..
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I went to BU as a history major and while the Minority had that view, those courses did not rely on source documents. My history chair was one of those, and he took the good old shirt cut when it came to research
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Those teachers just never went on to say that the states’ rights issue was about the autonomy of each state decide whether they would be a slave owning state or no. Do you think that it was purposeful or by neglect?
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That may have been what they were taught but it seems they're all too comfortable believing it. You were taught the same thing but somehow you found the truth and didn't have to dig too far to get there. The non-believers don't get any slack from me!
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