Reposted from last thread:

Sez this proklamashun: “[…] April is the month in which the people of Virginia joined the Confederate States of America in a four year war between the states for independence that concluded at Appomattox Courthouse […]”

Independence. Sure. Nothing do to with defending the right to own human chattel. In fact, it was much like the Revolutionary War, if you don’t think about it too hard.