[DiogenesLamp]

To clarify... The war wasn’t started because slavery existed in the South. But because slavery existed, and because slavery was actually preventing the South from modernizing, they lost.

You may be shocked to learn that Lincoln was pushing for an amendment that would make it (slavery) virtually permanent.

It is stuff like this that has caused me to stop believing all the things I had been told about the Civil War for my entire life.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

Since the Civil War children in this country were taught that Washington and Lincoln were the epitomes of the presidential lineage. Lincoln’s legacy was strongly burnished by the education establishment that flourished late in the 19th century. The Civil War was a myth-making vehicle for them, and they needed a patron saint to justify the carnage.