Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 20: Yes, the Civil War was about slavery
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A key feature of the Lost Cause narrative basically started the day the war ended, which is that the war wasn’t about slavery, but about States Rights and “Suthern Honuh” and so on. If many Americans in Union states had been indifferent to the fate of slaves before the war, by 1865, most of them had come to hate the institution of slavery. That was partly became it had led the Confederates to start a massive civil war. And also because Union troops in the South got to see slavery and slaves up close and now understood what a vicious institution it was.
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 20: Yes, the Civil War was about slavery
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 20…
Confederate “Heritage” Month 2024, April 20: Yes, the Civil War was about slavery
A key feature of the Lost Cause narrative basically started the day the war ended, which is that the war wasn’t about slavery, but about States Rights and “Suthern Honuh” and so on. If many Americans in Union states had been indifferent to the fate of slaves before the war, by 1865, most of them had come to hate the institution of slavery. That was partly became it had led the Confederates to start a massive civil war. And also because Union troops in the South got to see slavery and slaves up close and now understood what a vicious institution it was.