Birdwatch Note Rating
2024-01-02 11:40:25 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: BD48925A1C54D1C5F925D0A24F4420B898D42E52B9CD3BB089EA8864F5B2D1A9
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Original Note:
Misleading: The "economic cost" is including the economic losses to the Southern states from the *abolishment of slavery*. Actual economic losses are harder to quantify postwar: https://www.nps.gov/articles/industry-and-economy-during-the-civil-war.htm https://www.atlantafed.org/blogs/-/media/CFBC939B67FA46169DA711319F15FDD2.ashx "Expand DC control of Southern lands" was not at all the 'justification' for the Civil War: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/was-the-civil-war-a-war-of-choice.htm https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
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