Here's one of my favorite misperceptions; the Emancipation Proclamation.
The accepted narrative is because he was an abolitionist and the Civil War was primarily about slavery, which of course is hogwash.
A lot recognize that it was so slaves in the South would escape and join the Union.
But the main reason may have been that the European navies were blockading the Union navy. When the narrative that the South was fighting for slavery made it's way back to Europe, they lost political support for helping the South, and the Northern navy was then able to turn the tide of the war. It was a political stunt, and a very effective one at that.
Here's one of my favorite misperceptions; the Emancipation Proclamation.
The accepted narrative is because he was an abolitionist and the Civil War was primarily about slavery, which of course is hogwash.
A lot recognize that it was so slaves in the South would escape and join the Union.
But the main reason may have been that the European navies were blockading the Union navy. When the narrative that the South was fighting for slavery made it's way back to Europe, they lost political support for helping the South, and the Northern navy was then able to turn the tide of the war. It was a political stunt, and a very effective one at that.
the only reason it was "about slavery" was because that was the way to hurt the South economically. It would be like abolishing tractors in Iowa
Meanwhile England was starving out the Irish and selling 1000s of them into slavery, I mean, indentured servitude
And the North they supported told Irish immigrants they had to either had to fight in the war or take their families back to Ireland and starve
I kinda think Europe had other motives