George Washington ordered the destruction of the Iroquois towns during the Revolutionary War. But neo-Confederates like to pretend he was a Jeffersonian, so they say nothing, just as they forget he was a Federalist who believed in implied powers and signed the First Bank of the United States into law.
I'm getting so sick and tired of all this Lincoln bashing (especially by people who call other people "RINOs"). So no history book prior to 1960 considered slavery a factor in the Civil War? At all?? Really???
This is getting ridiculous.
“So no history book prior to 1960 considered slavery a factor in the Civil War? At all?”
Of course they discussed the role of slavery, but accurately. They didn’t present it as the sole cause, any more than honest historians dismissed it completely.