Slavery and the North: what you didn't learn in history class
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Christopher Lehman |
TEDxStCloud
• October 2020
American teachers teach the Civil War as pairs of opposites: The Union fought the Confederates. The North fought the South. Freedom versus slavery. Innocent versus guilty. But that’s not the whole truth. Historian Christopher Lehman revisits one of the biggest myths about slavery and explains why it matters today.