2025 Year in Review #7: Thinking About Slavery

“How Much Did Soldiers Think About Slavery?” That was the question Evan Portman asked in our seventh-most-read post of 2025. His post, published on April 16, 2025, examines the central issue of the war and what soldiers thought about it at the time.

With more than 160 years of hindsight available to us, you think we’d have a clear-eyed view of the question, yet a surprising number of people remain willfully blind about the role of slavery and the war. Evan’s post takes a look. It comes in at #7 on our list of most-read posts written in 2025.

As a bonus, you might also want to check out one of our most-read posts of all time, “What was So Wrong with Slavery,” written by Steward Henderson on April 26, 2019. Later in our “Year in Review,” you’ll see where Steward’s post falls on our list of Top Ten most-read posts of all time—stay tuned!