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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
The move to take emphasis away from slavery has been used to let the South save face for past sin.
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The original emphasis that the war started
because of slavery was northern propaganda. Yes, it needed to end. Yes Lincoln was an abolitionist. He was not about to start a civil war over it, though.
The money I was talking about was the tarrifs paid primarily by the south in that they were still "colonial" (in the sense of producing raw materials for remote factories. Yes, a lot of that money was from slave labor (which we as a country have never paid them back for, BTW).
IMHO, the slaves needed to rise up
themselves. John Brown was right about a lot of things. Their descendants would have had a more equal place in this "equal" society (or, of course, it might have turned out like Haiti).
I suppose this makes me a southern apologist as well as a white liberal. Guess I'll have to go join the ACLU and carry the card around so you can add another label
