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Speaker 1: The Civil War wasn't about states' rights, but you already

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Speaker 1: knew that.

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Speaker 2: What's happen to know it? Alls?

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of the most anticipated podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Black Effect Podcast Network, especially in February.

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Speaker 2: Entitled I didn't Know? Maybe you didn't either.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host f Dots And you know one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite movies of all time, Glory. It's the story

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Speaker 1: with Denzel Washington and the fifty fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

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Speaker 1: It's right there during that Civil War period. And you know,

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Speaker 1: every time the Civil War comes up, somebody try to say, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't about slavery, it was about states rights. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: if that's the case, quick question the states rights to

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Speaker 1: do what? Let's pull that case foul, shall we? But

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Speaker 1: before we do, I've got three of the most useless

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Speaker 1: facts you'll never need, never, not a day in life

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Speaker 1: about states rights.

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Speaker 2: Up.

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Speaker 1: First, every Confederate state wrote why they were leaving the Union,

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Speaker 1: and slavery was named directly. Your second useless fact, Mississippi

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Speaker 1: caust slavery the greatest material interest of the world, and

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Speaker 1: that's a quote, not a remix.

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Speaker 2: And your third.

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Speaker 1: Useless fact, the states' rights explanation didn't even become popular

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Speaker 1: until after the Confederacy lost.

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Speaker 2: But do you know why that mattered?

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Speaker 1: Because I didn't I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I

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Speaker 2: didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. All right,

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Speaker 2: So here's what history gets wrong. On purpose.

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Speaker 1: The Civil War wasn't confusing to the people who started it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: they were extremely clear. South Carolina said the Northern States

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Speaker 1: were interfering with slavery. Texas said slavery was divinely ordained.

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Speaker 1: Georgia said out volition threatened their entire way of life.

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Speaker 1: Nobody was being vague about it. So how did states'

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Speaker 1: rights become the headline? Because losing a war is bad,

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Speaker 1: but losing a war for slavery is worse. See, after

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Speaker 1: the Confederacy loss, the South had branding problems. You can't

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Speaker 1: rebuild political power while saying, yeah, we fought to keep

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Speaker 1: people enslaved. So the story got softened. Slavery became complicated,

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Speaker 1: and slavery's became misunderstood, and the war became about principle

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Speaker 1: That rewriter.

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Speaker 2: Is called the Lost Cause. And it worked.

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Speaker 1: It made monuments possible, It made textbooks safer. It made

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Speaker 1: accountability optional, because if the war was just a simple misunderstanding,

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Speaker 1: then nobody has to answer for it. And this is

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Speaker 1: exactly why Carter G. Woodson started Black History Week one

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Speaker 1: hundred years ago in nineteen twenty six.

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Speaker 2: It was meant to correct that, not ignorance denial.

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Speaker 1: See, when the cause of the Civil War gets blurred,

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Speaker 1: everything that comes after it gets blurred too. Reconstruction looks extreme,

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Speaker 1: civil rights look unnecessary, and resistance looks disruptive. That ain't accidental.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens when history avoids responsibility. So let's be clear.

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Speaker 1: The Civil War wasn't about abstract rights. It was about

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Speaker 1: the right to own human beings, period. And the receipts

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Speaker 1: are still there if you're willing to read them.

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Speaker 2: And I didn't know, maybe you didn't either,