Yeah, my education growing up featured pro-confederacy curriculum pretty hard. It sums up as “The union didn’t ban slavery at all until midway into the war, and even then only for rebelling states to scare the union border states into staying with the union to keep their slaves”.
Of course, they had to really gloss over the various declarations of secession, some of the legislative moves of the period, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates. But in exchange there was just so much support from the daughters/sons of the confederacy… Sure they could point out how much the Union was slow-walking change, but it was absurd that we were taught that slavery was at most a footnote as to why the war kicked off.
Yeah, my education growing up featured pro-confederacy curriculum pretty hard. It sums up as “The union didn’t ban slavery at all until midway into the war, and even then only for rebelling states to scare the union border states into staying with the union to keep their slaves”.
Of course, they had to really gloss over the various declarations of secession, some of the legislative moves of the period, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates. But in exchange there was just so much support from the daughters/sons of the confederacy… Sure they could point out how much the Union was slow-walking change, but it was absurd that we were taught that slavery was at most a footnote as to why the war kicked off.