Juneteenth and the lack of black lives in US curricula

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(06-22-2020, 10:38 AM)fredtoast Wrote: 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.

You can also pull up the transcripts of state legislature floor arguments and see the same thing.