I don't know who needs to hear this, but the civil war was fought over slavery.
well, I know one person who needed to hear it--my cashier at costco today.
Cashier asked me about my John Brown shirt & I told him who JB was. "Civil war was such a shame--should never have happened" he says. "Well, it was worth getting rid of slavery, don't you think?"
"Oh, that's not what the war was about, The north wanted to tax..."
"Yeah, I'm gonna disagree with you there" I say, and walked away.
@rpardee Growning up in Georgia my father always used John Brown instead of saying God damned when in mixed company. The John Brown car won't start! Well I'll be John Brown! As a kid, I had no idea who John Brown was. I'm pretty sure he wasn't using it in a complimentary way.