Robert E. Lee was a traitor, a brute and a slaver who wouldn't even trade black union soldiers taken prisoner for the lives of his own men because he saw black people as property to be owned.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/ …
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I was taught that it was about “States rights“ in college 30 years ago. And I live in MA! I knew better at the time, but I couldn’t believe the professor was saying that. So some people are just mistaken because that’s what they were taught. And they never looked into it further.
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It drives me up the wall when people say the war was about states’ rights and neglect to mention *which* states rights in particular were so important to the southern states that they were willing to fight a war over them. (It was slavery.)
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I don't get it either. We're not talking about speculation here. It's not oral or anecdotal history. They literally wrote it down - in official documents. And more than once.
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Yes, the overwhelming reason for the secession was the impending spectre of abolition, but the union absolutely was NOT fighting about slavery, so saying the war was about slavery is an outright lie. The war was about denying the ability to secede.
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OK. I wouldn't call it a lie, though. The reason they went to war was because they were not allowed to secede from the Union. Which still leaves slavery as the cause for wanting to secede in the first place.
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But slavery was exactly zero percent of the reason the Union was fighting. So saying the war was about slavery is either a deliberate lie, or foundational ignorance.
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"But slavery was exactly zero percent of the reason the Union was fighting." If you're going to be a pedant, be a consistent pedant. This is not true. A percentage of popular, military, and political support was for abolition. That percentage changed with time over the war.
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At no point was it the actual causal reason for the war, though. The Union was fighting about slavery in the same way we're fighting in the middle east about WMDs now. That might be how they drummed up some of their support, but that's not what it was really about.
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I highly recommend reading Ta-Nehisi Coates on this subject!https://twitter.com/holyspacemonkey/status/897799351430336513?s=21 …
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Confederates found that “Fighting for slavery presented problems abroad, and so Confederate diplomats came up with the notion of emphasizing ‘states rights’ over ‘slavery’—the first manifestation of what would later become a plank in the foundation of Lost Cause mythology.”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates writes: “The first people to question that mythology were themselves Confederates, distraught to find their motives downplayed or treated as embarrassments. A Richmond-based newspaper offered the following:
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Richmond, VA-based “Southern Punch” newspaper, 1864: “Our doctrine is this: WE ARE FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE THAT OUR GREAT AND NECESSARY DOMESTIC INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY SHALL BE PRESERVED, and for the preservation of other institutions of which slavery is the groundwork.”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: “Even after the war, as the Lost Cause rose, many veterans remained clear about why they had rallied to the Confederate flag. ‘I’ve never heard of any other cause than slavery,’ wrote Confederate commander John S. Mosby.“ The Confederate cause was SLAVERY.
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True@ from a southern perspective they had indentured aervants and alaveswhich cost fifty years of food and water and housing
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The issue with slavery isn’t that someone believed it or not. Or whether the north or the south which are directions ... were right or wrong it is that we humans refuse to be slaves and consider it an inaliable right. And will fight and live and die for that.
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It is also that we won. Many times for thousands of year slavery had won. And we’re losing that victory as we divide and fight. Also mind you freedom from@bondage doesn’t make us equal and right now we aren’t all living as equals
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Thank you. Save me from having to type it.
ধন্যবাদ। আপনার সময়রেখাকে আরো ভালো করে তুলতে টুইটার এটিকে ব্যবহার করবে। পূর্বাবস্থায়পূর্বাবস্থায়
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You are one indeed percent incorrect
ধন্যবাদ। আপনার সময়রেখাকে আরো ভালো করে তুলতে টুইটার এটিকে ব্যবহার করবে। পূর্বাবস্থায়পূর্বাবস্থায়
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Team of Rivals also gets i to exhaustive detail on the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act in new States
ধন্যবাদ। আপনার সময়রেখাকে আরো ভালো করে তুলতে টুইটার এটিকে ব্যবহার করবে। পূর্বাবস্থায়পূর্বাবস্থায়
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লোড হতে বেশ কিছুক্ষণ সময় নিচ্ছে।
টুইটার তার ক্ষমতার বাইরে চলে গেছে বা কোনো সাময়িক সমস্যার সম্মুখীন হয়েছে আবার চেষ্টা করুন বা আরও তথ্যের জন্য টুইটারের স্থিতি দেখুন।