And everyone is taught that the civil war was over slavery. That was an afterthought, to get more people on board.
Even more than an afterthought - an after the victory revision of history.
Hundreds blacks fought in the Confederate Army. They were fighting to keep from being impoverished by the onerous taxing by the north - and to maintain the rights of states.
Missing from the current history textbooks are the stories about the blacks who petitioned the courts to go back into the slavery arrangement. They were having trouble feeding themselves and keeping a roof over their heads. As slaves they didn’t have to worry about that.
Remember - Massachusetts never outlawed slavery for centuries. One of the reasons was they were afraid the cities and towns would have to provide food and housing for their freed slaves.
Imagine what would happen now if the government told the current slaves of the welfare plantation that they could no longer be slaves and they would have to support themselves.