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Most of these Slaves your idiot Author liks to cite as proof of the 'happy slave' in the 1936-38 Narratives were Children like the 9/10 year old Booker T Washington who had vague memories of slavery.

I took most of the subjective literature written before 1950 with a grain of salt. Many of the first historians of the Civil War were southerners who invented this "Lost Cause" mythology as a way to help their damaged psyches cope with the aftermath of the war. There are far too many Americans out there who believe every plantation was just like Tara from Gone with the Wind.

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Posted by Navtiger1

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Posted on 4/1/14 at 8:19 pm to RollTide1987

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There are far too many Americans out there who believe every plantation was just like Tara from Gone with the Wind.

And there are far too many Americans who believe every plantation was run by raping, beating, murdering, foaming at the mouth evil whites.

The truth is the life of slaves ranged from Roots to Gone with the Wind. Some were treated pretty well while others were treated worse than livestock. There was no good in the institution and I don't know anyone who would argue slavery was right or good. But the narrative from both sides is probably wrong in most respects. The degree of treatment of slaves varied greatly from one slave owner to another.

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Posted by dwr353

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Posted on 4/1/14 at 8:38 pm to RollTide1987

Roll, so any book written before 1950 is wrong, but the modern books full of Northern propaganda/slant are correct? Books written by people who experienced that time period are not to be beleived? Or only books books from that period written by yankees credibile? People like you an sugar have blinders on in my opinion. The War Between the States was a complicated time that can not be condensed into a simple North good South bad package. There were good guys and bad guys on both sides. You do not know the motivation of every soldier who served.

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Posted by bencoleman

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Posted on 4/1/14 at 9:31 pm to RollTide1987

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I took most of the subjective literature written before 1950 with a grain of salt. Many of the first historians of the Civil War were southerners

There were plenty of northerners writing their version as well and for someone who doesn't have blinders on you sure toe the northern revisionist line.

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