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Post by cupcakes on Aug 25, 2017 17:06:07 GMT
tpfkar Not only did Lincoln primarily want to keep the country from being split in two, the South opened hostilities. But the key point of this discussion is that the Confederacy was about preserving slavery. Nothing to celebrate or hold up or honor. Except by the racists and the Nazis. When people insist it "wasn't about slavery" I recommend reading the actual declarations of secession. Each one describes slavery as a clear objective. And/or the Cornerstone Speech, or any real discussion of the day. The rewrites started with the largely successful attempts to salvage white supremacy in the South after it was subdued militarily. The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization.
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