Happy Confederate Surrender Day!

When each one of the 13 southern states seceded, they issued a statement expressing the reasons for their decision. Each statement mentioned slavery prominently. Look it up.

 

I believe the guy he's talking about was from Valdosta, Ga.

 

They changed it six years ago. Try to keep up.
Duval School Board backs Westside High School as new name for Forrest High

 

I was informed of this on page six
Try to keep up

 

Exactly. No war without slavery.

 

Neither were many nations that, like the CSA, simply decided to become one. More often than not, the United States supports such efforts.

 

What's changed? The despot today is right across the Potomac.

 

To wander off on a tangent, a lot of what propelled the revolution forward was the pissing match between the British Parliament and the colonial legislatures. (As in, No, only we have the power to levy taxes!)

I read a book by the British historian Nick Bunker, An Empire on the Edge, last year. Another interesting thing is that almost up into the end, dealing with America was really an afterthought for Parliament. They'd debate it for a few hours, pass a bill and then forget about it entirely for a few years. It's not like in popular histories where screwing over the colonies is all they ever did morning, noon and night.

 

Refighting the Civil War. I thought it was over emails(!).

 

Having read a fair number of books on the revolution I never drew the conclusion or even inference that the colonies were a major preoccupation with the English Crown and Parliament. From the end of the French and Indian Wars until theFrench joined the colonists as allies, the crown was diverted elsewhere inthe empire. They used the colonies as an ATM, hence the taxes. Tax money used to prop up theBritish ambitions elsewhere in the world. They kept thinking their other colonies in East Asia were more important.