(April 23, 2016 at 4:00 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(April 23, 2016 at 6:43 am)Brian37 Wrote: They didn't put blacks on their currency in the South because they thought they were equal humans, they did it because owning another human being was a social norm to them. The North were the progressives. Slavery had ended in the North in the majority of the North long before the Civil War.
As i clearly stated, the Confederates put slaves on the money early in the war as a propaganda move to show the whites that slavery was intact and that things were normal at home so that they could go get killed fighting the Union troops. Later on the Confederates passed the "Twenty Negro Law" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Negro_Law so that one white guy was exempted from the draft for every 20 slaves. After that they dropped the slaves' images off the CSA currency.
So although the Confederates used black people as images on their currency as propaganda and to show how wonderful slavery was the Union covered its currency with pictures of rich slavers (Washington, Jefferson, Jackson) for tens of decades. The CSA also used a real live white woman on its currency whereas the USA has fought tooth and nail against putting any woman on its currency.
As a side note the CSA wanted more black people in the country and the North wanted to deport all of them. It's a complicated issue.
Yea but you said the South were more progressive because of that.... Or you made it sound like that. No, not even as propaganda does that make them more progressive. They still thought owning other humans was ok, there is no way you can call propaganda progression.
