160 years on, were R.E. Lee, the Confederacy, and the Chief Rabbi of NYC right? Emancipation was a debacle. See the horrors of urban black ghettos. The Federal govt morphed into an corrupt leviathan that pushes its crushing debt onto future generations.
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Slavery was a flawed institution (and R.E. Lee knew it), but: 1) Their value was half the net worth of the South, so abolishing it destroyed the South economically. 2) Retaliatory violence, like in Haiti. Disproportionate Black-on-White violence persists to this day.
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Was the North motivated to destroy a thriving economic rival, like England and France bullying the Dutch Republic? And, was it a political revolution following the ideals of the Revolts of 1848? The Reconstruction Amendments make that obvious. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution …
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The South wasn't even "White Supremacist." They were the most hospitable group Jews found in 1800 years of wanderings. Jews were integral to the Confederacy (two top members) and fought passionately for it. R.E. Lee, similarly, was respectful to Jews in the Confederacy.pic.twitter.com/iKjzt6Qtj5
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The Southern elite were arrogant former cavaliers lost in time (nothing Margaret Mitchell hasn't covered). The enlisted men were ill-disciplined, as R.E. Lee decried. But history and poets will forever romanticize them, like the Byzantines, for fighting a hopeless noble cause.pic.twitter.com/MEthWk7nFj
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