This strongly worded letter is going to do it this time guys I swear

Why so thorny?

You have repeated propaganda spread by the Daughters of the Confederacy almost verbatim.

The Confederacy required a state to ratify slavery in it’s constitution to join. The secessionists more than once in the build up to the war said that their identity as states was inseparably tied to slavery.

There was an entire ethical ‘code’ in the South that required a gentlemen to beat with a stick any man that dared speak openly against slavery. This lead to a senator beating a man nearly to death on the Senate floor in 1856.

Slavery in this case specifically refers to the involuntary and permanent bondage of all black people. Having a single traceable ancestor of African origin anywhere in your family tree meant you were black.

The primary and only issue that lead to the civil war was the threat of talking slavery away. This is an indisputable fact. Arguing otherwise is like trying to argue the earth is flat, and camels can pass through sewing needles.