07-13-2015, 06:37 PM
(07-13-2015, 06:33 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: The issue with this article is that the idea that the North was fighting against slavery is a misconception, yes, but there is no century long effort by Northern academia to distort the reality of the war and suggest that the North was fighting to end slavery and not to preserve the Union. I can tell you from experience as a social studies teacher that school systems are sugar coating it either. Well, at least mine isn't.
I would disagree. I mean, think about the pedestal upon which Lincoln is hoisted as "The great Emancipator." Is it taught in schools today that he had no intention of ending slavery when elected?
