Posted on 10/03/2015 1:28:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
So another fifty or sixty or seventy years of slavery was OK with you?
Or even some kind of steam tractor maybe?
At any rate slavery hung over both South and North as a spiritual curse. God isn’t going to smile favorably on cant about freedom that is being constantly violated. Chattel slavery that inhered to future generations was not even a kind of slavery that was mentioned in the bible.
Nobody’s saying it was okay, especially not in the form it was being practiced. Nobody hollers TOO much about the history of indentured servitude even though it is not legal today. But for someone to be slave forever and their children to be slaves, that takes a special kind of evil.
Nevertheless; Lincoln was a mass murderer and a war criminal should should have been hung for crimes against humanity.
By just whose or what law?
The south went to war to protect and expand their Peculiar Institution. The north went to war to save the union and because the south had gone to war against them.
To be fair, the North wasn’t trying to crack down on Southern slavery. Not while it had the same institution itself.
It still was (to use a metaphor) bad karma. If someone can harden their heart badly enough to support that, they are going to overlook a mountain of other blessings too.
“The south went to war to protect and expand their Peculiar Institution.”
The money interests did exactly that and sold it to the common man as “the damn yankees are coming down here to rape your women and deprive you of your rights”.
750,000 dead 1861-1865 for something that would have eventually died out on it’s own within a few years.
You’re correct. The north was vastly more conflicted about slavery than the south. Opinions were all over the map. In the south however things were monolithic - the powers that be were going to have slavery and would willingly defy God himself to keep it.
Is that where the lost cause mythology came from?
Could could it “die out on its own” when the confederates enshrined it in perpetuity in their constitution?
So the South launched their war that led to the deaths of all those hundreds of thousands of people for something that was going to die out in a few years? How dumb is that?
Or “nation building” in our most recent conflict?
Raised in California, old Army wife, moved around a lot.
Few years ago, lived in Greenville, SC for 6 years.
Observing Southern culture was a real education.
Black/white race relations were far more amiable than what I was use to in the West. It raised a lot of questions about black slaves that never left their “owners”, for all that slavery had been they were thankful to in America. “Owners” that freed their slaves before the war.
That led me to ask the question, “Why are we led to believe Americans were the only ones to hold slaves? It’s the evil Americans history? Were there no slaves in Europe?
When I started asking those questions, it opened up the whole history of slavery. Very short conclusion: For most of history, in most of the world, slavery has been the norm for all races.
Ending slavery in Great Britain and America is the real story! Something the world had never experienced on such a scale before.
I’m still waiting on my letters of Marque and Reprisal so I can go a pirating! er, Privateering.
Man did you ever miss the boat!
****How dumb is that? ***
Dumb, since the war wasn’t expected to last three months.
‘Got to...get this...damned fishboat...out of the port!’
Yes, it was the north that made you shoot at fort sumter, wasn’t it...
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