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Understanding the American Civil War as a labor conflict instead of a military one is one of the most intuitive things I've ever learned. So much so it's mindboggling how the view is not at all taught in school.
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Like, we're taught a version of the civil war that focuses on every actor except the black people who were actually slaves. Isn't that fucky? I mean it's not surprising but it's fucky
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I'm reading this, which is what prompted this little tangent. I have to read Black Reconstruction in America too isreview.org/issue/100/w-e-b-du-bois-black-agency-and-slaves-civil-war