There were thousands of people killed for what they believe in and it wasn’t slavery it was about the equity of power between the States and the federal government as Well protecting they’re fellow countrymen and neighbors. These celebrations of the cafeteracy we’re about celebrating the lives that they lived and and what they did
What is the cafeteracy? A new diner museum?
No. It WAS about slavery. Read the Confederate Constitution.
Slavery was a primary issue in the Civil War. To say otherwise is to deny history.
The founding documents of the confederacy state it was to ensure slavery continued. Don’t kid yourself
They dilution of the civil war to simply a war over slavery is idiotic, but sadly that is what it has been turned into in the primary education system of the united states... so most are utterly clueless..
There is a scene in a Simpson’s episode where Apu is going through his naturalization exam and is asked about the Civil War, and Apu begins to offer an very informed answer, when the administrator basically shuts him down and tells him to just say slavery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q—iGgtRn8&t=4s
This is what passes for Civics in the US today, most people don’t have an inkling how their government is supposed to work let alone the history of their nation.