• DillonBrooksEnjoyer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s definitely a blow for the “the civil war wasn’t about slavery” crowd lol. Like I’m all for not judging the past by modern morals and acting like confederates weren’t as human as the rest of us… but pretending the civil war had nothing to do with slavery is simply a farce.

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      1 year ago

      It had 100% to do with slavery. The south would not have been the cotton king with out them.

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      1 year ago

      There’s a meme in US history circles that goes

      Elementary school- the civil war is about slavery

      High school- it’s about slavery and the economic fears of the loss of slavery

      College- it’s about states rights

      Grad school- the US Civil War is unquestioningly all about slavery