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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Honeychile,
Thanks very much for the post and the links.
I've actually had high school and college courses that touched on Northern slavery, but the historical facts are so easily overlooked or forgotten because we are so focused on the Civil War and its causes and effects.
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In my hometown, I get to be the first person to talk to the elementary school kids about history. One of the things I
always show them is a copy of the 1790 census, which shows how many slaves are in each household.
There were less than 100 people in the village, yet there were two slaves.
Another thing that people tend to overlook (for whatever reason) is how many Northerners, who didn't own slaves, still went South to fight for the Confederacy. When the author of "Don't Know Much About The Civil War", Kenneth C. Davis, came to Pittsburgh, the reenactors who usually are there for this type of activity had to explain to him that entire units of men from the greater Pittsburgh area were Confederates.
Let's face it - NONE of us know all there is to know about our own history! Yet, so much of our own history grows out of the results of the American Revolution and the Civil War, we could never study it enough!