![]() I think it attracted so many views for two reasons. The video didn’t go viral because my argument was brilliant or because the swooping graphics that accompanied the video were so effective. I’m not the first person to state the obvious: that slavery caused the Civil War. Today, it has had thirty million views, making it one of the most watched history lectures-in history. At the end of the week, it had five million views. In twenty-four hours, more than a million people had watched it. ![]() The first night I kept checking the views and the comments. Yet the video went viral immediately, trending on Facebook and Twitter. Virtually every American historian would fully subscribe to the proposition that the southern states seceded to preserve slavery, precipitating the Civil War. Slavery was, by a wide margin, the single most important cause of the Civil War.” There has to be another reason, we are told. ![]() “Many people don’t want to believe that the citizens of the southern states were willing to fight and die to preserve the morally repugnant institution of slavery. ![]() In the summer of 2015, PragerU, a conservative website specializing in short videos, published a five-minute lecture I wrote and recorded titled “Was the Civil War About Slavery?” In the first thirty seconds of the video I answered the question. ![]()
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