[bushfamfan]

I’m curious what you would have thought if you found yourself in the position of a slave and in those times. It was time for the brutal injustice to end.

[Arkinsaw]

I’m curious what you would have thought if you found yourself in the position of a slave and in those times. It was time for the brutal injustice to end.

I recently saw a news story where a vicious thug robbed a store and shot the storekeeper through the abdomen. The surgeons saving the victim's life discovered a cancerous tumor well on its way to killing the victim. They successfully removed it.

The thug deserves no praise for saving the victim's life in the long run.

[Graybeard58]

I’m curious what you would have thought if you found yourself in the position of a slave and in those times. It was time for the brutal injustice to end.

I have accused no slave of terrorism and after all that's the subject I referred to, not slavery. I said that John Brown was a terrorist. His acts testify to that fact.

If terrorism is ok in some instances for a "just cause", then the jihadists are ok. I can assure you that they believe with all their hearts that their cause is just and so are their tactics. They have an ok from their god and so John Brown thought also.

I don't believe for one minute that God told John Brown to murder and butcher adult males in the presence of their families but he certainly thought so.

Don't interpret my condemnation of terrorism as defence of slavery, it isn't.

[Salamander]

The institution of slavery existed for 4 years under the ~Confederate~ flag.

How long did it exist under the ~US~ flag?

How many ~northern~ slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?