06-22-2020, 10:38 AM
(06-20-2020, 11:58 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: with so much digitized, it’s easier and easier to use primary sources. A lot of us are rejecting textbooks and focusing on primary sources.
Whenever some one starts giving me the story about how the civil war was about "States Rights" instead of slavery I tell them that most of the Confederate states issued "Declaration of Causes" for secession that were basically like the a "Declaration of Independence". Anyone can still read them and every one of them lists preserving the institution of slavery as a main central issue.
