Slavery obscures the bigger story of the civil war, the end of our Republic and the beginning of the imperial presidency and slide toward socialism we are experiencing today.
I thought I was the only one who thought that, TexasFreeper...
The Vice President of the Confederacy disagreed with you. His Cornerstone speech says all we need to know
“Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.”