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re: 154 years ago today.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 12:57 am to crazy4lsu
Posted on 7/4/17 at 12:57 am to crazy4lsu
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Your viewpoint begs the question as to why the US was so far behind the other major powers of the time, which abolished slavery much earlier and had just as much reason not to, with their vast colonial possessions. The argument is a cop out and is frankly lazy.
Because thats the best that apologizers for the Confederacy can come up with.
Its laughable at this point. I'm as politically red as they come but get labeled a "liberal" when I voice disdain for a group that rebelled to cling to slavery for economic benefit.
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Posted on 7/4/17 at 1:18 am to kilo
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Because thats the best that apologizers for the Confederacy can come up with.
Its laughable at this point. I'm as politically red as they come but get labeled a "liberal" when I voice disdain for a group that rebelled to cling to slavery for economic benefit.
It does a good job of washing away a lot of complex history, from before the war, during it, and after it. I've always found the argument that slavery would have ended of its own volition completely unsatisfactory, given that peonage and slavery in other forms continued into the 20th century. Not only that, there is nothing to say that the labor wouldn't have simply been shifted to other areas if agriculture had become less profitable.
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