One more thing....having lived in 4 foreign countries I was struck immediately of course by how differently a lot of foreigners viewed historical events than what we were taught. Some of their historical interpretations were clearly jingoistic nonsense and/or excuse making for horrible acts by the tyrants in charge. Clearly the propaganda had a big effect on what they were taught and what they believed.
I thought at the time that the US had a more open educational system and was less given to teaching fairy tales about the past that happened to suit the government narrative.
As I gradually learned there was a whole different side to this conflict I had been taught nothing about, I started realizing just how much Americans had been propagandized and taught fairy tales about American history to suit the government narrative.
For example, the British quite happily taught students about how John Adams insisted after the war on the return of escaped slaves who had gone over to the Brits, how the Prime Minister at the time refused and stayed loyal to them and how the King congratulated the Prime Minister on this. Are we ever taught this in American schools? Hell no.
Think you could EVER get something like this to air on US TV? Fat chance!
Abraham Lincoln Saint or Sinner
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1848q3
I did not know about this. John Adams was from Massachusetts, wasn't he? Very interesting. Kinda undermines the narrative that BroJoeK and others have been trying to sell us about it being only the Southern states that cared about slavery.