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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Letters to the Editor

Nikki Haley’s Civil War comment shows danger of whitewashing U.S. history

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks during a town hall, Dec. 18, 2023, in Nevada, Iowa. Haley failed to mention slavery as a cause of the Civil War during another recent town hall in New Hampshire. (Charlie Neibergall/AP)

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley’s stumble in omitting slavery as the true cause of the Civil War helps illustrate the folly of the national book-banning movement.

The fact that Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, apparently didn’t know — or pretended not to know — that slavery is mentioned front and center in her home state’s declaration of secession in 1861, is alarming enough.

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