[lizma2]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

I suspect if we lived back then, we would have a different view then we do now.

Was it really the war on northern aggression? Was slavery the reason? Was it to defend states right from the feds?

From what I recall the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the southern states.

Bottom line, we moved past it... until now.

[colorado tanker]

If you read the writings and speeches of the fire eaters who controlled the legislatures, it was all about slavery.

I think, however, it was more complicated for the ordinary Confederate soldier, few of whom owned slaves.