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"Party" line of the Arkansas schools was essentially the crap Lincoln haters here spout and based upon the same lies.
My conclusions on any matter are not the result of Illinois schools since I never studied either American history or the Civil war in them. They are, however, the result of extensive reading outside the schools. Original documents relevence to any matter depends on who wrote them your comments appear to have been based without considering that simple fact. What documents did you see which show slavery NOT to be a brutal de-humanizing tyrannic abomination?

Nothing wrong with large groups of people wanting to govern themselves but secession was illegal from the beginning of the constitution as was pointed out in 360. Should an amendment been ratified allowing secession I would have nothing to object to morally but that never happened so treasonous revolt was tried. Proper distinctions are appropriate. Revolt against the King (who was the sovereign of the colonies except for Pennsylvania) is not the same as revolt against the document the American People created to govern it. Revolt against the People's government is Treason just as revolt against Virginia's government in 1860 would have been a form of treason.

If your study is such, how can you deny the persistent and on-going activity against Black people in the South? How can you pretend that there was equal justice or equal opportunity for Blacks and Whites? How can you deny the murders, beatings, forced exiles of politically active Blacks or the ease with which Black men were railroaded to prison for "offenses" against white womanhood. The riots in Tulsa, New Orleans, Arkansas directed at murdering Blacks. Did your historical studies leave you ignorant of these things. Events which form the background of TKaM and which, without knowledge of, the book loses its relevence and appeal. You don't have to like the book and it is not one of the greatest novels ever written but it is not un-real or trite except ex-post facto.