re: Robert E. Lee has been misrepresented by regressive "historians"

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It is absurd to me that people have been taught that the Civil War was fought because of slavery.

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The southern states, most especially those in the Deep South, seceded primarily over the question of slavery.

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Abraham Lincoln consistently said that the reason for the war was to preserve the Union.

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And then his tune started changing in 1862. But apparently we only want to take into account words he said while trying to woo the South back into the Union. By 1863-64, the war had taken on a whole new meaning.

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He was voted in as a neutral candidate because he wasn't an opponent or proponent of slavery.

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Not true. He was very much opposed to the expansion of slavery into the territories and wouldn't have been sad to see the institution disappear from America entirely.

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The South seceded because they believed the people in Washington did not have their best interests in mind.

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I.E. slavery.

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It just so happened that the South was agricultural, so keeping slaves was important for them to sustain their economy.

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Yeah...and it just so happens had the South never had slaves, they never secede from the Union in the first place.