@FinancialShinanigan
Denying history makes it easier to be repeated
@TheBurgessNetwork
"Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter." -African proverb
@easyenetwork2023
Another reason we can debunk this is the founding documents of the CSA. They mention slavery more often than state’s rights.
@rabbit251
I am now 57 and when I was young I was taught that the Civil War was about state's rights. I grew up in Wisconsin. Over the years my cousin learned German and translated many of the letters of our ancestors who were German Lutherans. Our great grandfather fought in the Wilderness. In his letters he never mentions states rights, but talks a lot about the inhumanity of slavery. He was elected sergeant of their company. Fun fact, none of them spoke English, only German.
@MrMighty147
Can't wait for the first comments being like "I used to like TED-Ed but now they just want to push an Agenda"
@autumngalix4616
I guess I had a lot of good history teachers. We were taught everything horrible about slavery. The selling that seperated family members, the labour that sometimes exhausted those poor people to death, the punishments that they endured, and the dangerous jobs that sometimes left them with gruesome injuries. It makes me sad to hear that some schools didn't teach this.
@carseye1219
I lived in Florida for a few years. All of the people whose opinion I respected told me "NEVER get into discussions wth people whose first words are "You know, the Civil War was not about slavery". Very sage advice.
@paranoidper726
Here in Sweden we’ve always taught in history classes that the reason for the Civil War was slavery. Ihad never heard of ”the lost cause” until I spent a year in the US as a high school student. It was quite an unsettling experience to learn that entire generations were taught false history.
@Amy-fd9xp
In middle school I remember being told specifically that the civil war was not about slavery. It wasn’t till high school that a teacher said “slavery was a main cause of the civil war” but by then a lot of my classmates didn’t even believe it.
@kamanashiskar9203
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Thanks for 1.7 K likes! I never got so many!!! Thank you!!!
@t.s.adrian8785
Slavery is covered in 5 different sections of the Confederate Constitution. The declaration by the Texas state legislature ALONE mentions slavery 21 times. But Southerners keep telling yourself that the "War Between the States" was not about slavery.
@MisterRorschach90
It’s so sad how such a large portion of America refuses to accept reality. Not only about topics like this, but even current events. It’s like something has indoctrinated half the country to distrust anything academic, especially science.
@jossgoyanko7006
Wait a freaking second... THE UDC IS STILL AROUND?!?!?!
@fugitiveunknown7806
So.. I'm a Canadian. I have a nephew who had high school in an Amercian school, some fancy academy in the South in around 2017 on a football scholarship. He had to leave the room when he got his history textbook referring to slavery as immigration from Africa. "Teaching this in a highschool would literally get you arrested in Canada."
@lifequotient
I read Frederick Douglass' book "My Bondage and My Freedom" several years ago and was blown away. The more I learn about him now, the more his prescience amazes me.
@jbart1411
You are so correct, as a southern white male I believed the story of states rights, until I read the constitution of the confederate union, that states that all new confederate states must allow Slavery. The fact is that all slavery is wrong. And history should not be changed or forgotten. Thank you for pointing this fact out. Joe Bartolotta
@apeking7099
"defending our right to ignore human rights if we wanted" - the lost cause
@aleksandarvil5718
Confederates: "We didn't lose, We merely failed to win!"
@FreddieVee
I am writing this in May 2024, and in Florida, the governor is claiming that slavery benefited many slaves because they learned a trade while on the plantation. Some things never change!!
@cinnamonxguy