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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brother Shatterstone" data-source="post: 1158039" data-attributes="member: 13442">I love that scene too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />History is an opinion and with any opinion it’s carries a bias, and that is simply human nature and total unavoidable.  If we’ve learned anything from history it’s that human nature leads to bias.That said, the Civil War at the time was fought over state rights, and not really the poor slaves.  The confederacy said they had I right to leave the United States and could run their own sovereign state(s) much like what was written in the “Articles of the Confederation” with a weak central government, and a strong state government.  The north, a.k.a. the union, on the other hand said “no you do not have that right.”  If you look closely you will see that slavery was allowed in the Union, as in boarder states,  for many years while the Civil War raged.Now that not a very popular answers, look to the Simpson’s for that.  Of course, that’s my opinion and though I would consider it fact and have no issues teaching my children it as fact.  It is bias just by my very human nature. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Now on to history in general...  Look at the sphinx, look at the dinosaurs,  and tell me their hasn’t been new MAJOR ideas about them both in the last 10 years…We learn more of are selves and this planet everyday, and history is the hardest thing to change.  I've seen some awesome replies to this thread. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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