10/26/2004 4:54:54 AM PDT
· 10 of 261 Kileab
to stainlessbanner
Revisionist history is what has caused people to believe the Civil war was about slavery. When it was only part of the overall issue of states rights.
Slavery was fading out in the southern states until the invention of the Cotton Gin which made it profitable again.
Also the south is constantly portrayed as evil for fighting this war for slavery but hardly a word is mentioned of the rape of the southern economy by the north during reconstruction. A travesty from which the south has just begun to recover from in the last 20 years.