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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
Your comments about the CSA must make you a darling among your black friends.
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I do have black friends and we have discussed this over beers on at least a couple of occasions. Don't think that I'm pro slavery (never was) or think that people should get judged based on the color of their skin (never did). But IMHO the war did not start over slavery and wasn't about slavery until Lincoln made it so (
very savvy move as it cut the South off from any possible support from Europe
and increased support for the war in the North
and (longer term) undermined some of the "will to fight" in the South).
Are they now teaching that the Civil War started over slavery?
Not that there weren't wars in North America over slavery. The Texan war of independence from Mexico certainly had that as one cause. Only they wanted to
keep slavery, and , as heroes of the Alamo, we don't read about the slavery part - at least not here in New England - Texan school history books might have a more complete coverage (same way we could tell you what boneheads the Puritans were).
Thanks for mentioning Giap's book. Looks like I should add it to my stack. May want to discuss it later - although this is likely the wrong forum...