The winner gets to write "history".
Yup. The pro-choice history is that you aren't a person unless you've already been born. And if the South had won, it would be accepted history that you are not a person unless you are white.
If there were really about state's rights, then why is that the Articles of Confederation did not grant states the right to secede?
"The winner gets to write "history"."
Not in the present day and age. The losers are oppressed victims. Historians like to write their stories.
And the loser gets to write the myths.
Yeah, since O.J. Simpson WON his caes, you can bet all the history books will reflect that he was a victim of racism and a poor innocent dupe who was framed by "the man" for henious murders he obviously didn't commit.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Historically, the war between the states IS misrepresented by educators, because they take the minority point of view. In reality, the issue lies with this point: If the war was based on the freedom of southern slaves (the north had theirs as well), then why did Lincoln - who forgot who his base was after running as Fremont's vice president - wait before releasing the Emancipation Proclamation?
Additionally, why then was the north allowed to hold onto their slaves for an additional year?
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And that's how Lincoln became a great President.