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 The war did not start in 1861 for Black people, and that is something Coates mentions in the piece. It's indicative of the idea that race relations were not an idea that popped up in the 1860s, but something that has been there for over a century. There's a deep tension between people when the war starts, and that was only highlighted by the Civil War. (Caty)
+I found this reading very interesting as it presents a perspective on the war you hear little from. The modern day African American perspective is one from which we see how the war should be viewed and how its results should be applied. Declan F.
+For the African American community, viewing the war is viewing a long history of slavery and injustice in the states. The war was a culmination of decades of Black mistreatment and the physical battles of the war made up a larger conflict which began when savery first entered the US colonies. Declan F.
+Coates calls out African Americans and appears to encourage further study and almost accuse as if a mis-justice is done by not having African Americans study the civil war. Declan F.
 In his collection of historical essays !is Mighty Scourge, James McPherson notes that before the war, Jefferson Davis defended secession, saying it was justified by Lincoln’s alleged radicalism. Davis claimed that Lincoln’s plan to limit slavery would make “property in slaves so insecure as to be comparatively worthless... thereby annihilating in effect property worth thousands of millions of dollars.” But after the war, Davis referred to the “existence of African servitude” as “only an incident,” not the cause of the war. (Guy)