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An opinion piece.
Five myths about why the South seceded
Posted from washingtonpost.comPosted in these groups: 
Civil War
American History
Civil War American History
Posted 8 y ago
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I always take whatever is published in the Washington Post with more that a grain of salt.
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/secession/?referrer=https://www.google.com/
https://rightaislereview.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/lies-james-loewen-told-me/
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/secession/?referrer=https://www.google.com/
https://rightaislereview.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/lies-james-loewen-told-me/
The Civil War Trust's history article analyzing the reasons for secession as set forth in the Articles of Secession and Declarations of Causes issued by the Southern states.
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Kind of short ended in length - and not sure it is actually to the point of some of the myths it mentions - if he had dug deeper into the roots. If you are wanting a really good read.. one that is very eye opening and an all around excellent book. Its not exactly the history you might have been taught - nor is it balanced to either side - but there are alot of details in it that provide a different picture to look at and understand how things got that far. - https://www.amazon.com/Disease-Public-Mind-Understanding-Fought/dp/ [login to see]
A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War: Thomas Fleming:...
A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War [Thomas Fleming] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind—the distortions of reality—that destroyed George Washington's vision of a united America and inflicted the tragedy that still divide's the nation's soul.
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LTC Eric Udouj
Simple myth busting is difficult - to often you get the hindsight of history and without a total picture focus and instead include but one window in a house. Such but creates another myth.... When you read the history and see how close we came to doing away with slavery and how such broke down again and again... it is perplexing and sad that we failed to do it before it came to a civil war.
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LTC Eric Udouj - I'll save that link to my wishlist. What's your take on his article? Too simplistic?
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LTC Eric Udouj
Very much so - partly in that it is so narrow focused. You can not look at a myth and not examine the roots of the myth... to do so is only to state an opinion.
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