"You mean the "War to Free One Third of the South From Unpaid Labor, Forced Familiar Separation And Forcible Rape"?"
The "Ken Burns" view.
Burns relies on Macpherson, author of "Battle Cry of Freedom" for most of the content of the series, although there is a desultory acknowledgement of Foote at the beginning. Burns is a better film-maker than historian, and he's not much at that either.
"Myths and Realities of American Slavery" by John Perry contradicts much of this.
http://www.vvm.com/~johperry/ Leftists have been trying to advance the slavery argument to demonstrate their theory of political evolution.
"In every day and in every way, we keep getting better, etc." That's the ideology of the left, and they distort history to promote it. They overlook the probability that all the advances that they (and we) extol could never have occurred had the integrity of the union been broken.
"Get over it?" I will when you & they stop defaming my people.
Yes, I'm glad the union was saved, that the North stepped on our head.
But we sure-as-hell bruised your heel, didn't we?
"Get over it?" I will when you & they stop defaming my people.
Your people? Who would those be?