Court Jester Wrote:It's sad that people are educated as they are and I have to close with this (though most won't read this far) the civil war was not started or faught over slavery until it was thrown in near the end when it was clear that the north was going to win. Many states were also permitted to keep their slaves. Nearly all of them were Union states.
Lincoln also made it clear that blacks should not have the same rights as whites and should be sent back to where they came from. No sain person can argue that slavery was wrong, but slavery was not what they were fighting for.
I guess the South Carolinians who started the damn war didn't get the memo then, judging by the reasons offered by leading figures within the state when they argued for secession, as well as the actual wording of their declaration of secession. The silly fuckers seemed to think it was all about slavery.
It's interesting that you seem to let them off the hook for that by pivoting to northern racial attitudes. There were Northern racists. Wow. Thanks for the news flash. Doesn't change the explicit reasons given by Southerners at the time.
