10 Frequently Unknown Truths (Courtesy: The Politically Incorrect Guide To The Civil War.)

1.   Before the start of the Civil War there were actually three times as many anti-slavery organizations in the South as in the North.

2.   In the South only 25% of white families even owned slaves,

3.   Half of this 25% (12.5%) owned only 1-5 slaves,

4.   Less than 1% (.0025% of Southern white families) of slave owners even owned more than 50 slaves.

4.   Alexis de Tocqueville thought that racism was more prevalent in free states than in slave states.

6.    Abraham Lincoln (Union President) was self instructed and had NO formal education.

7.   Thomas Jefferson (Confederate President) was educated at; Thomas Aquinas Catholic school, Jefferson College, Transylvania University, and West Point Academy.

8.   "British diplomat Odo Russell reported that the pope "would not conceal from me the fact that all his sympathies were with the Southern Confederacy and he wished them all success," and after the war while Jefferson Davis was being held prisoner by Federals at Fort Monroe, the pope sent him a crown of thorns, that had been woven with his own hands.

9.   Robert E. Lee freed his slaves even before the Emancipation Proclamation, and argued during the war for the South to abolish slavery itself and find ways to encourage blacks to enlist in the Confederate army.

10.   Nathan Bedford Forrest was a slave trader, yet ironically freed his own slaves. And though he is allegedly a commander of the Ku Klux Klan (wanna-be Nazis), he actually wanted more free blacks - and Chinese - in the South.

True Start of The Civil War

     Most people incorrectly believe that the Civil War started because of the abolition of slavery.  However, this is not true, the Civil War was started when the South tried to split off from the north. This was due to an increase in cotton taxes, thus the South tried to split much like the thirteen colonies split from England. That caused the Revolutionary War and was also started on the basis of too many high taxes. Ergo, the Boston Tea Party.

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