The Club Nobody Could Afford

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Civil War American history power structures ideological capture Reconstruction slavery political economy realpolitik race in America historical analysis

There is a version of the Civil War that gets taught in schools. Slavery was wrong, the South seceded to preserve it, Lincoln freed the slaves, the North won, and the country moved on. Every part of that is technically true and almost none of it is useful.

The more instructive version starts with a different question: who actually owned slaves?

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