As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaches (commonly taken to mean when the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter on April 12th), the Southern States are still sticking to the same fiction they have been spouting since reconstruction: the war was about states' rights.
It makes sense to try and rebrand history this way. After all, they were mainly fighting to preserve slavery. That's not something to be proud of.
It's our duty to not fall for Southern revisionist clever marketing. Slavery was a central theme to the war - just read the documents of secession to see how central slavery was.
True, the North did not enter the war to end slavery - they entered the war to preserve the Union. But as the war progressed, freeing the slaves became central.
Hell, even Haley Barbour admits that the war was about slavery. To pretend anything otherwise is to fall victim to the nefarious side of marketing...
