Southerners started rewriting history shortly after the war to downplay the importance of slavery and to play up the victimization angle. Northerners joined in about a century or so ago in the interest to national unity. That rewriting persisted for a long time. The atmosphere of the Civil War Centennial 50 years back was very different from how people felt during and after the war.
I can understand any country wanting to downplay the real hate, anger, and fear people felt a century earlier, but that meant creating a false picture of the war, also dismissing African-American concerns and defaming abolitionists as hot-heads who in some way caused the war.
“History is rewritten all the time.”
Road apples. That statement is logically identical to a leftard trying to justify some foul misconduct by saying, “Everybody does it.”
Virtuous societies do not rewrite history to be less accurate.
“What you may have learned in school was already rewritten.”
You don’t know what I learned in school, or even when I was in school. However, you lucked into a minor truth; textbooks tended to be written by people like you, and there was a good deal of rewriting. Luckily, my people on my mother’s side have been in Florida since the 1750s. School is far from my only source of information.
“It certainly differed from what people who actually fought the war thought while they were fighting it.”
How do you have the nerve to blather on about “certainly” this or that? You know nothing, except falsehoods you picked up from history rewritten specifically to be less accurate.
“Southerners started rewriting history shortly after the war to downplay the importance of slavery and to play up the victimization angle.”
I wonder if you are aware that you have uttered a falsehood. Oh, well, that’s between you and God.
“Northerners joined in about a century or so ago in the interest to national unity.”
What a load of bollocks. Northerners started rewriting history to make themselves look good at Sumpter.
By the way, the phrase is “in the interests of,” not “in the interest to.”
“The atmosphere of the Civil War Centennial 50 years back was very different from how people felt during and after the war.”
You may be old enough to remember the Centennial, but you don’t have the first foggiest notion “how people felt during and after the war.”
“I can understand any country wanting to downplay the real hate, anger, and fear people felt a century earlier”
Really? Because I can’t. I can’t understand that at all. And that’s why you are a revisionist, and I am not.
“also dismissing African-American concerns and defaming abolitionists as hot-heads who in some way caused the war.”
Are you posting from the faculty lounge at Joseph Stalin University? It is indisputable that many abolitionists were hot-heads and helped precipitate an unnecessary war. If you don’t even know that much, you should really clam up and go find some accurate history.