The Abolitionist Legacy of the Civil War Belongs to the Left

How should we remember the Civil War? For many liberals today, the story is one of the North winning the war but losing the peace, acquiescing to a sectional reconciliation that left white supremacy intact. Racism won out, plain and simple. But this is only part of the story. The precipitous decline in union membership, […]

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