# Was the U.S. Civil War all about slavery? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 23, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-u-s-civil-war-all-about-slavery/540432 "2010-05-23T03:36:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-u-s-civil-war-all-about-slavery/540432/201 "2010-06-05T00:41:05Z")
> [@Strassia](#): > > Of course treating the Confederacy, or any political entity as having a single brain is not a realistic notion. The point of the whole piece is that subscribing to the idea of the noble Lost Cause is both morally and factually wrong. The point I got out of that passage was that mythologizing the Confederacy as some noble endeavor of freedom loving people or a heroic effort to preserve cultural integrity cannot stand up to the true facts of the Civil War. What I got out of it is that the author is a lying douche who makes up bullshit to fit his preconceptions. Distorting history in one way is not a solution for solving it another way. > [@](#): > > People today whose ancestors may have fought against the succession and who themselves would have been little more than peons whose only status was they were above the slaves in the Confederacy actively romanticize and promote it due to not really understanding what happened. I fully agree. “Making shit up” to challenge it isn’t a good response. The real Confederacy was not Teh Ultimates Ebillz!, nor Hitlers grandaddy. It was what is was, _good and evil alike_, and we do ourselves and our children a gross disservice when we pretend otherwise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-u-s-civil-war-all-about-slavery/540432.md?page=10)