we don t call it the civil war. why is it important to call it the war between the states? because it wasn t a civil war. the war of northern aggression, the north came down here and invaded us. we didn t go up there. my grandmother was saying they had to had the food in the chimney because of soldiers who came in we take everything they had. they take all their livestock, any food that was in the house, and it was terrible. the war took place in our backyard, for the people of up north, it was a distant thing. we re both members of the local confederate members, and we are responsible for taking care of that cemetery. but our generation is that, there s not gonna be anybody around to take care of it. or to promote the true history of the 1860 to 1865 time. the teacher is teaching the cause of the war on slavery. really?
i am a member of the [inaudible] high school family. education first. students [inaudible] the kids that i have here are determined to not follow in the footsteps of what is in the past. i m hoping i can spark something in them to say, i want to know more. i want to learn more. in mississippi, do people talk about slavery as the cause of war? you don t hear the word of slavery or slaves in mississippi. that was an incidental part of it. i guess the simple term is whitewash, as i told my class, that a lot of time you want to see the good part of the history. especially history that you are part of. and you want to minimize the bad part about it. slavery is not easy an easy topic to tackle for black or for white. so how do you tackle the story of slavery? one thing is that the slaves
well, once he realized he couldn t win this war, then the war started to change in lincoln s favor. 150, 000, they were enslaved, living in all southern states. they literally lived up with uniforms on and rifles and pockets. so if you think, i live in a world that s out of control and, there s nothing that i can do about it. well, there is something you can do about it, and you can take lessons from these people whose stories we tell here in this museum. i think it s liberating. we re making this tone that how we tell the story of the civil war, and i think you guys have been what did you think? i hear like it s living in this country. it s like, oh, the civil war, you know about it. when you start to learn about, there s so many like, intricate details of why things happened. and i think it s it s important that we learn about it. but the one thing that does
i think he probably was. what stood out to you in the arguments? so our article was presented by alexander stevens in atlanta, georgia. and not once does he talk about slavery, property, and what the war is really about, what they re really fighting for. other voices? yeah. i noticed there seems to be a common idea that the civil war was totally about slavery. i m gonna disagree with that. the south did want to leave the union, because of slavery, but the issue of the civil war was keeping the south in the union. so slavery isn t like, the entire issue. pushback? comments? we re gonna continue tomorrow. we have class tomorrow. you are a thinker. that is for sure. the wedge is this labor issue, right? i think we re agreed on that.
laborers, not engaging in educational advancement. they need a new system to keep them there. the solution and the south was a system of jim crow laws. everything from schooling to voting, to transportation, public accommodation, every element of life is now going to be segregated. lots of white americans, north or south, unified around segregation as a way to keep society at social order. the way in which this culture became within the first half century after the war, an american north south reunion without racial justice, left a deep set of legacies. we are of course, still struggling with. and every time we think we have so much of this put aside, we re suddenly reminded that we don t.