Black History Month 2013

[merithyn]

Well of course with the Civil War in particular the reason these reasons were not brought up back in the 60s were the same reasons the war was fought in the first place.  The Lost Cause ideology was still very strong.

Now I don't know.  It would have to be on hell of a Lettowist telling of the story for black Americans not to be central to the narrative.

I'm not so sure about that. From what I understand, the recent Lincoln movie completely ignored the positive impact blacks had in convincing Lincoln and Congress in passing the anti-slavery laws. Frederick Douglas barely came up, though he was an incredibly important voice in the process.