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Happy birthday, John Herring...
On 4/19/2016 7:48 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/19/16 6:15 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/19/2016 12:44 AM, Boating All Out wrote: In article FPKdnckyYI1-ZonKnZ2dnUU7- , says... According to you and BOA, there was only *one* reason for the Civil War ... slavery. I'm still waiting for your history text recomendations that say otherwise. I have no idea why you think the Civil War would have occurred but for slavery. It makes no sense. Maybe in searching for text to support your view, you will be enlightened. At least you haven't suggested that blacks were better off being enslaved, as did Greg. Rather than a book (that I doubt you would read) here's a couple of rational discussions on the conventional wisdom that the Civil War was just about slavery: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/slavery-and-the-civil-war_b_849066.html http://www.globalresearch.ca/falsifying-history-on-behalf-of-agendas-us-civil-war-was-about-money-not-slavery/5464841 Slavery and the many issues attached to it, including economics, were the cause and rationale for the Civil War. History revisionists and apologists don't like to acknowledge the fact that at times in its history, the United States was no better than many other countries in its treatment of people of color. It's the same sort of argument you get from Christian apologists who claim the horrors committed in the name of that religion were somehow less horrible than the horrors committed in the name of other religions. Posit: If there had been no slavery in the South, there would have been no Civil War. We will never know. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation didn't end slavery. He made exceptions. He even publicly stated that blacks should not have the full citizenship rights of whites. There were many reasons for the Civil War. Abolishing slavery is a simple and convenient explanation but it isn't the full story. It was really seeded in state's rights as interpreted by the south and the feeling that the federal government was becoming too intrusive. |
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