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What did the war itself mean on both sides?
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Its cause, its purpose,
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that developing sense of the reason people fight.
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What was it about?
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What were the war's results, what were its consequences?
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Do wars have meanings that we are obliged to discern?
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Yes.
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Why were the slaves freed?
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How did emancipation come, when it came, the way it came?
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Was the American Civil War a second American Revolution
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yes, no, maybe in between?
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Is it the wrong term, is there a better one?