TIL The "lost cause of the Confederacy" is an actual myth used to promote racism and racist ideals
TIL The "lost cause of the Confederacy" is an actual myth used to promote racism and racist ideals
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My Texas history teacher in 7th grade actually pushed this narrative
...likewise; my wife was apoplectic when i suggested that the civil war was about secession...
Can you explain that a little more? I'm guessing you meant secession, but even then I don't get what you mean. Like, they seceded but the topic would be about WHY they did that.
But I'm probably missing something.
(yes, secession; autocorrect squiggled it into another word as i was typing)
...just that, though: we were taught that emancipation was just one of many issues stemming from increasingly-fundamental differences in economic, social, and international policy, and that the war itself precipitated from the southern states asserting a right to secession and sovereignty which the federal government did not grant...
...we were also taught that the spark was actually southern states' seizure of federal assets...
my fucking midwestern education was like that. the textbooks said that there was an open question about whether states have the right to secede from the union as if the Confederacy was just Just Asking Questions
Did you mistype "wasn't"?
...nope; her education was 1980s DoDDS, mine was 1980s TEA...
I had struggled with AP Euro in high school and had decided to just take regular US history the following year. Absolute mistake. My teacher was the football coach and was a huge proponent for the ‘states rights’ BS. This was in one of the better funded school districts in SoCal.
These days that wouldn't fly (or at least it shouldn't fly)
Weird we learned that it was states rights to own people in VA Middle School and how the plantation system worked