re: #354 Belafon
America’s ignorance on slavery really hasn’t changed much because America has never really wanted to come to terms with it. That could change, and should change, with the group Democrats are based on now. But it won’t be pretty going through it.
I had to pull part of the Texas declaration of secession to prove to a 35 year old coworker that the reason for leaving was slavery.
We get told that our or those of us with Southern white ancestors were fighting for a flawed but fundamentally just cause. We don’t learn about Southern Unionists who risked everything including their lives for the Union.