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@mekkaokereke @rsynnott @SteveClough @LauraLangdon @bluejekyll I note the degree to which it’s still normal to lie about the causes of the civil war. Textbooks will have vague things about states’ rights but if you look at what the secessionists wrote in their declarations or constitutions it’s quite explicit and if quoted (“hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the Institution of Slavery”) almost certainly would not pass a textbook review committee without heavy protest.