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Rep. Jackson Leads Drive to Invest Blacks in Civil War, Stress Primary Role of Slavery

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and other activists are trying to invest more black Americans in this year's Civil War sesquicentennial, in part by stressing that slavery—not states' rights—was the primary cause of the conflict. David A. Graham reports.

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