Pelosi orders removal of portraits of ex-House speakers who served in Confederacy

It would help if the schools would start teaching the "rest of the story" about the Civil War. It was not initially about slavery, it was about unfair taxation. Slavery became an issue later in the war because it gave the south an economic advantage over the north in some ways.

Of course, the right thing happened in abolishing slavery. But that was NOT the main issue that the war was over.
 
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