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Interesting. Of course, he was speaking 82 years after the war ended. Who knows what he thought in 1862?
I'm sure many 1940s Germans recognized in 1980 that if they supported Nazi Germany they were silently agreeing with the atrocities carried out by Nazi leadership. But, in 1940? They were probably glad they weren't being thrown into the gas chamber if all it meant was providing some resources to the government.
It really isn't that different than the Civil War solder reminiscing about a war ~85 years ago.
Maybe that ONE soldier legitimately felt that way. But, if a majority of the Confederate soldiers felt the slaves should be freed... they wouldn't have taken up arms. Or they would have demanded the slave be freed and then fight for states' rights.
I guess you haven't read any of Lincolns own words on the subject
Your misleading Lincoln quote from earlier failed to leave this part at the end of Lincoln's letter to Greeley: “I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.”
My GGGreat grandfather, and most of his brothers were confederate soldiers, and they did not have slaves.
They WERE, however, half native Americans who's mother, and cousins and aunts and uncles were forced from their homes by the gov. and forced to walk The Trail of Tears, where they settled in Oklahoma.
Exactly. Similar actions today. People tearing down statues and monuments they have no business tearing Down. Banning this and that. I fly a confederate flag as a political protest to those punks that want to destroy history and decide on their own with violence what history should remain.
This incredible guy fought in his heart for states rights. He and soldiers fighting with him deserve respect. I doubt any soldiers fighting for the south owned slaves.
Slavery existed across the globe. It was the norm. Societies evolve over time. How about going after people that sold these slaves as hard as they go after people that bought them.
Like going after the pusher that sells drugs as hard as going after the buyer.
What a lot of people don't know is that there were MANY black slave owners.
So, a car. We know from the 1860s census that about one in three households in the Confederate states would have at least one slave. Roughly matches car ownership in the 1950s. That is to say nothing of the thriving rental market for slaves.
The idea that young men fighting for the Confederacy would somehow have grown up shielded from personal experience with the master/slave relationship does not hold water.
"about one in three households in the Confederate states would have at least one slave."
Which also meant 2 in 3 did NOT own slaves. And I repeat, there were MANY black slave owners.
Using the "logic" of the NAACP and many blacks and others who did, are, and want to destroy more statues, re-name streets, schools, etc., we should destroy statues, re-name schools, streets, etc. who honor MLK and other black leaders because so many slaves WERE owned of other blacks.
"about one in three households in the Confederate states would have at least one slave."
Which also meant 2 in 3 did NOT own slaves. And I repeat, there were MANY black slave owners.
Using the "logic" of the NAACP and many blacks and others who did, are, and want to destroy more statues, re-name streets, schools, etc., we should destroy statues, re-name schools, streets, etc. who honor MLK and other black leaders because so many slaves WERE owned of other blacks.
"Equal treatment" and all!
Imagine making this much of a fool of yourself LMAO
Still, amazing to hear the voice of someone who lived it. Imagine his life, he fought with a musket at 16 but lived to see atomic bombs dropped on Japan and the dawn of the Jet age.
His life might be an amazing life of adventure. At the same time, I still can't overlook the cause of the Confederacy.
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