More and more, it appears to me to be an issue of the "aristocracy" of the South wanting to preserve its power, and especially, its "peculiar institution".
Quite understandable.
The war between the states was a terrible disaster for everyone, especially for the South. Both sides thought they would easily win. It ramped up from there.
Slavery was on its way out, in large part because of the industrial revolution. An amazing thing to see an institution which had survived for thousands of years, destroyed in most of the world where Western Civilization could reach, in a few decades.
It had always been questionable in Christendom. Industrialization provided the lever to topple it.
You mean you believe the same old stuff we've all been taught for our entire lives. Stuff which exonerates the government's excessive use of power and the bloodshed.
Funny thing is, I keep finding out all these details that they never bothered to teach me in school. Stuff like the Corwin Amendment.
I had never heard of it until a few years ago, yet it seems quite significant. The Government voted to amend the Constitution to keep slavery permanent.
Kinda undermines the claim that they fought the war over slavery. Seems like they were in agreement on that point.
So why didn't they teach us about the Corwin Amendment?
Why didn't they teach us about the war fleet Lincoln sent to attack the Confederates at Charleston?
Why didn't they tell us the South was paying 72% of the taxes, and most of the tax money was spent in the North building Northern industry and infrastructure?
Why did they teach us that "expansion of slavery" was a real possibility, when the truth is it was absolutely impossible?
Why didn't they teach us about all the political prisoners Lincoln took, and that he tried to arrest the Chief Justice of the Supreme court?
Why did they cover up all the bad/embarrassing stuff the government did?
I didn't learn any of this stuff in school. Everything I learned in school showed the government was doing the Lord's work, and driving out evil from our land.
Something i've learned in life, is that when people are lying and covering things up, they aren't the good guys.