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To: Jacquerie
We celebrate independence, which began July 4, 1776.

In other words, secession from the Union.

27 posted on 07/04/2023 7:23:47 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

No. It was a rebellion against a degenerate monarchy an ocean away.

You know Lampster you love to go on about ‘’rich Northern bankers’’ as if the Southern slave owners weren’t getting rich off of selling and buying human beings.

It might interest you to know that according to historian William Marvel the average median income of a Union soldier was a paltry $200 while the median income of a soldier in Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was 6 1/2 times that much.

Howlit Irvin was the son of the former lieutenant governor of Georgia who had a net worth of $170,000 dollars and owned 177 slaves. He was one of the richest men in the South.

So much for ‘’rich Northern bankers’’.


136 posted on 07/13/2023 10:46:35 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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