Still false. The slave-holding states on the Union side continued to hold them longer than the Confederate ones were able to, and when Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation it almost caused a rebellion in the North because his soldiers did not enlist in order to free slaves! Such was their POV.
Yet, the fact is that the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave in the slave states that had remained in the Union. Lincoln, the so-called Great Emancipator, was very careful not to do that!
No, it isn't false. The South
to this day still "looks back" at the pre-civil war South in the same way Lot's wife did: they are
reminiscent of the time. And, that is because they do not know what happened (history,) they willingly deny/ignore what happened, or they don't care of the implications of being reminiscent of the days when slaves were penetrated in front of their families for the purposes of providing proper
subservient labour for plantation owners. Pick one, but don't have us believe the Confederacy is
only about history of "good men."
The EP was not about freeing slaves, and neither was the civil war. I know I never said this because I vehemently disagree with it. I know what it was about, and it wasn't emancipation.
However, we can't get there because we cant agree that what the fathers of the fathers of many Southerners did to African slaves was an abomination (that it happened, and what actually happened) - and we cannot seem to stay on point bout the geographical context of this thread.
Stop diverging into reasons the North isn't getting any criticism about this type of thing, because the North isn't the one trying to convince the nation the celebration is benign. That, alone - that deception - is what makes people even more repulsed by "The South."
Now, I still entertain that you just don't know the horrors, but there is no reason you should stay ignorant in the age of google and MIT Open Courseworks.