> The North likes to view the American Civil War in terms of slavery, and the South likes to view it in terms of states rights
Minor nitpick, but the Confederacy viewed slavery as the cornerstone of their government[1]. Those who now claim the Civil War was about 'states rights' are engaging in simple, brazen revisionism.
> In what’s now known as the “Cornerstone Speech,” Stephens told a Savannah, Ga., crowd in 1861 that “our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas [as those of slavery foes]; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”
Minor nitpick, but the Confederacy viewed slavery as the cornerstone of their government[1]. Those who now claim the Civil War was about 'states rights' are engaging in simple, brazen revisionism.
> In what’s now known as the “Cornerstone Speech,” Stephens told a Savannah, Ga., crowd in 1861 that “our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas [as those of slavery foes]; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”
[1] https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/0708/...