[Sam Gamgee]

Yet Northerners were far more bigoted than Southerners. A Southerner would never have used the word “Nigger” for instance, which Northerners clumsily tossed around.

[0.E.O]

Yet Northerners were far more bigoted than Southerners. A Southerner would never have used the word “Nigger” for instance, which Northerners clumsily tossed around.

When you believe a race is fit for slavery and nothing else does it matter what you call them?

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Yet Northerners were far more bigoted than Southerners. A Southerner would never have used the word “Nigger” for instance, which Northerners clumsily tossed around.

In 1860? Absurd. I don't know if current scruples about the word existed back then, but I'm pretty sure that plenty of Southerners "clumsily tossed the word around."

[rockrr]

You take the prize for the stupidest comment of the day. I learned that particular epithet while living in the south where it was indeed tossed about with reckless abandon.

Kudos

[donmeaker]

Hood and Sherman used the same word for members of the African race during their correspondence.

I recently read it, so consider that a couple of data points, not necessarily indicative of anything in particular.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Since there were no voice recorders, who said what to whom at that time can never be known. Perhaps one might back off a bit on the accusations for what can never be known.

You note my style is to make a statement, and after the Rebs take offense with it, to post the evidence.