How did I miss this gem of Paul Graham thought? “The standard cartoon version that the Civil War was about slavery” http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html
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Maybe so. "Slavery caused the civil war" minimizes the decades of federal shenanigans before slavery became the perfect politicizable issue
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But I apologize for trying to speak to complicated history on Twitter >_<
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