Are we young people ignorant of history ?

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you seem to want very badly to insist on Slavery as a issue here. Which is not the case .
It is about the ignorance of younger people about history . And your previous point points that out quite well .. You wish to compare values of the 1800s to that of the 1900s and base your "trope"
On that and then wish to carry it further forward to things that make up our values maybe even today . Those people who settled this Country , had no other aspirations then to be able too worship their choice of religion and start a new life in the west . There concerns were just to have a successful family and a parcel of ground to call their own. And where willing to do hardwork to get that. If anything these are more likely the values the Country had back then . And even a great deal of people today . But please do go on about slavery , cause it does seem to be what you wish to talk about ..

Auuugh, …. This is maddening … you have given substance to rumor …. Please read about the civil war ….
Slavery was not the dominant issue at the time for the war ! Although people want it that way cause it is convenient to their narrative. (The way they want the story told) The South did NOT want to industrialize … The South as a whole was rural farming business . This put the South at a great disadvantage … they did not have factories to manufacture anything but process farm products . No firearms , they had to be imported . Even shoes were in short supply . Uniforms were mainly rag tag stuff people put together .. There was a large entire battle over a SHOE factory . In occupied Southern territory . General Lee and General Grant were both trained at the same military College and both were Federal Officers . As the war took off Lee felt allegiance to the South to the State were he grew up .
Not allegiance to Slavery . Yet recently instead of putting his statue on horseback in a museum , it has been melted down for its bronze value . According to recent news blurbs . This man was giving up his position in the Federal forces to do what he felt was right ,in the war between the States . States rights was a import thing back then.
In spite of all the stuff that has been thrown at this younger generation , the idea of Slavery being the primary issue in the War between the States , Is just not right . Slavery actually helped build this nation,and was incidental to the Civil War.
If the USA Government as a whole actually thought that Slavery was the Big issue George Washington’s picture should have never ever been put on our basic unit of money, ‘ the dollar bill” he used Slaves on his plantation .
And this unit of money is used throughout the world to buy goods and do business .
And PLEASE DO NOT get the idea I am pro South or slavery . But people need to understand the facts that created our history.

Obviously you appear to need this thread to be about Slavery . Rather than history in its entirety.
And that is your perrogative ... but after trying to write with you about history in general .
It did occur to me thst things had gone onto one topic , your topic of Slavery . And that is not why i have written to this thread . So carry on , it is obvious you can .

I am not applying any of "today's thinking" to the past. Thats what you're doing.