Mi Robin via Whiskey and the morning after blog -- Just the fact that these letters of secession exist, and that they contain direct language referencing the practice the slavery, proves that the Southern states’ primary impetus for breaking the union was to protect the slave trade. Yes, they can claim it was economics, but it was the economics of slave labor. They can claim it was states’ rights, but it was the states’ rights to own black people. You cannot extricate the issue of slavery from the Civil War, not unless you have a sinister agenda to paint African-Americans as all having some kind of victim complex, but then, too, you’d just be exposing your disgusting racist underbelly, wouldn’t you? ~ James Schlarmann
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:21:36 +0000
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