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How historically accurate is the movie Selma?

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Anyone know of any good books that cover the Southern Slave Power Conspiracy during the Civil War and the events leading up to it?

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Does anyone know any notable or interesting examples of a person or community in New England that was affected by the American Civil War.

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My teacher told me that historians, and even some of those who lived through the American civil war, believe that Southerners, in starting the war, became themselves the greatest practical abolitionists of all. Why exactly is this? It seems paradoxical to me.

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How historically accurate is the movie Selma?	2
Anyone know of any good books that cover the Southern Slave Power Conspiracy during the Civil War and the events leading up to it?	2
Does anyone know any notable or interesting examples of a person or community in New England that was affected by the American Civil War.	1
My teacher told me that historians, and even some of those who lived through the American civil war, believe that Southerners, in starting the war, became themselves the greatest practical abolitionists of all. Why exactly is this? It seems paradoxical to me.	1