White House press secretary argues that the Civil War wasn't about race
Sanders blames the media for controversy about John Kelly's praise of the Confederacy.
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https://thinkprogress.org/white-house-press-secretary-argues-that-the-civil-war-wasnt-about-race-992e4061ea95/
Slavery was legal until several months after the war. The north had a hand in that from the beginning of the uSA.