A new video entitled “Was the Civil War About Slavery?” from Prager University is currently making the rounds on the Internet. A caption claims that the video “settles the debate once and for all,” superseding over a century’s worth of scholarship by historians who have argued this matter.
But does it really?
The video is filled with misconceptions and myths about the Civil War. The few facts it does get right are vastly outnumbered by the promulgation of incessant fallacies and significant omissions that would severely contradict the narrative.
It is true that several states in their secession ordinances claimed the reason for seceding from the government concerned slave rights. However, this was not the case for the mid-south states, which definitively rejected secession on those grounds and provided different explanations for leaving the union. Tennessee, Arkansas, Virginia, and North Carolina departed from the union only after Lincoln resupplied Fort Sumter and pledged to raise an army of 75,000, while Congress was not in session, with the express purpose of invading other states.
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NO, the Civil Was was about economic dominance. The industrial North tried to use their power and influence to enslave the Southern economies. And I don't trust a bunch of commie professors to even know the truth let alone tell the truth.
ReplyDeleteBadger - Yankee by birth but Rebel at heart
They know the truth, but they'll never change.
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ReplyDeleteThe un-Civil War was resistance to psychopathic oligarchs and hypocritical abolitionists who cared nothing about people working in the mines, factories and sweat shops
Well said.
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