does anyone wanna tell himhttps://twitter.com/joshevanslowell/status/1020332019430109184 …
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we even call it "The Civil War"
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The Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement were fought by different groups for different reasons. (well, the bad guys were basically the same in both conflicts) The Union fought the Civil War to preserve the Union, the Confederates fought to keep slavery.
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Abolitionism was not a popular enough position in the North to fight a war for. Lincoln had to be talked into it by people like Frederick Douglass and Thaddeus Stephens. And even then he was still a racist.
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This is the defining distinction between the two conflicts. The Civil Rights Movement was fought by actual black people, fighting for their own liberation.
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The Civil War was fought by white people, the vast majority of them fighting for complected reasons that only tangentially involved limited rights for black people.
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Sounds like you’re erasing the fuck out of USCT regiments and that you’ve done no reading of primary sources regarding the changing attitudes of U.S. soldiers in the late war period towards abolition, but ok
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