Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 7, 2021 23:47:46 GMT
Okay, let me ask you a question. Would you go to war and fight against your literal own flesh and blood, fight in a kill or be killed situation against your own actual brother, just so a bunch of rich guys who you don't know and don't have anything to do with, could keep THEIR slaves? Do you really think all the poor men fighting and dying owned slaves? Do you know what it took to be exempt from fighting? A union man had to pay $300, which adjusted for inflation today would be $9,400. A confederate man had to own 20 slaves to be exempt, some slaves back then sold for $1,000, a single slave would sell for the equivalent of $30,000 today, so to be exempt from fighting, they had to own up to the equivalent of $627,000 worth of slaves. You think the guys who were starving because they couldn't afford $1.10 for a pound of bacon had that kind of money laying around to own people? So again, would you go to war and kill your own family for a bunch of rich people to own slaves?
A war fought by the poor to protect the interests of the rich, how unusual. To answer your question: I wouldn't have a choice. MY question is, why would someone who's ancestors were forced to kill their fellow countrymen look back fondly on and celebrate said rich guys and their unjust cause?