Well up here, Joshua Chamberlain, the 20th Maine, the Battle of Gettysburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin) and the underground railroad, are huge pieces of this state's history.
The cotton tax...not so much.
Rock, Maine did not secede from the Union.
There were significant economic pressures on southern states from the North and from Congress.
I think the revisionism is meant to “prove” that a war had to be fought to end slavery in this “evil” country.
The truth is that it was on its way out anyway, as Bray observed.