chapotraphouse

If I remember correctly, he was essentially the catalyst for the civil war right? Yet we don’t hear anything about him in schools. I was simply taught that the north was anti slavery, of course, the implication being they did it out of their good hearts. They never taught us that the south never fell in the first place, that they actually rose again and implemented apartheid instead of slavery and most of America supported it. Learning about a man who demanded the nation pay for its sins of slavery with blood goes against the narrative of the good republican who embraced the American value of human rights