[SpookBrat]

Bumping your rant! It's a good thing the south is back in the union. But I'm still not convinced this war was about freeing the slaves. If Sherman wanted to give them this great new free life, why did he burn their homes, destory their food, etc? "I'm here to free you, but you'll have to starve and have no place to work because I'm burning all the places of employment and you'll have no place to sleep because I'm going to burn your house down along with your masters house. Have a nice life".

What's up with that? I mean, so he helped the North win the war. That's fine and good, whatever, but I don't think it was because the Yanks cared about black people.

[snippy_about_it]

Oh I agree with you. As in all things it was so much more than what shows in the simple explanation of things. It certainly wasn't about freeing the slaves, that was a political after thought as far as I'm concerned.

[SAMWolf]

Some of the people up North, just like in the South thought slavery was wrong, but they also didn't want the Blacks up North competing for jobs there.

IMHO, the war was not all about slavery like they try to push down our throats now a days. It was about States Rights and whether the Federal government followed the Constitution. Slavery was the issue hot heads used to inflame emotions.