Texas Students Will Soon Learn Slavery Played A Central Role In The Civil War

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From https://www.npr.org/2018/11/16/668557179/texas-students-will-soon-learn-slavery-played-a-central-role-in-the-civil-war

Texas Students Will Soon Learn Slavery Played A Central Role In The Civil War

November 16, 2018 5:38 PM ET
CAMILLE PHILLIPS


Abraham Lincoln is shown in Richmond, Va., being cheered by former slaves in 1865.
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Texas' Board of Education voted Friday to change the way its students learn about the Civil War. Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, students will be taught that slavery played a "central role" in the war.

The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states' rights and slavery, in that order. In September, the board's Democrats proposed listing slavery as the only cause.

"What the use of 'states' rights' is doing is essentially blanketing, or skirting, the real foundational issue, which is slavery," Democratic board member Marisa Perez-Diaz, from San Antonio, said at a Tuesday board meeting.

Republican board member David Bradley, from Beaumont, argued for keeping the other causes in the curriculum. He said, "Each state had differences and made individual decisions as to whether or not to join into the conflict, correct? I mean, that's the definition of states' rights."

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[Blue_true]

1. Someone said that democrats flipped that school board in the election. Good. nt

[LeftInTX]

8. That did not...not at all.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. That might explain a lot of things. nt

[ProudLib72]

3. I grew up in TX

As I recall, states' rights was taught as the main cause of the Civil War. I think this affects a few generations' understanding of the war. It's just incredible it took this long to admit the truth to children.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Yeah, I got that in AL in the Sixties. It was all about Yankees imposing tariffs on foreign goods...

... so Southerners couldn't buy cheap British crap instead of expensive Yankee crap. States rights and tariffs on foreign goods. Oh, and especially that right to hold slaves. That was in there somewhere.

[ProudLib72]

6. You probably got "The War of Northern Aggression" line as well then

States' rights go hand in hand with that.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. LOL, I was going to use that in my post -- but thought it might be misinterpreted.

I actually saw that on a display at the first college I worked for -- still considered funny* in 1999.






* Republican funny, that is. Not the same.

[RainCaster]

4. That is something us Yankees learned as kids

It's not a big revelation

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. took 'em long enough to 'fess up

All of the seceding states declared slavery as the cause.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

10. Now they need to

Now they need to include slavery as a central issue that lead to the Battle of the Alamo.

(Who am I kidding? It’ll never happen. )