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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

      Census of 1860 data is striking. Slave population % of the seceding states was huge, much larger than border slaves states - also, the free black population was tiny everywhere but a handful of places. Just 1.2% of the population of the free states & territories.pic.twitter.com/DqcJmeJU4d

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

      One of the cruel ironies of secession over slavery - and yes, secession was about slavery - is that slaveholders were themselves a small % of the population. In Virginia, 4.7% were slaveholders; 3.6% were free black Americans.pic.twitter.com/KzaSdunb1l

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

      For all the size of the economic footprint of slavery, it was outside the lived experience of most Americans by 1860: <400,000 slaveholders in a nation of 31 million. And most of those held 5 or fewer slaves. Yet they drove the nation to war.pic.twitter.com/FJXcVGHxWX

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

      The mismatch between the small size of the slaveholding population & the vast number of people held in bondage never ceases to be shocking. Numbers don't tell the whole story, of course, but they speak volumes of their own.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

      Then there's this map of slavery's geographic distribution. Lincoln loved this map so much, the famous portrait of him & his Cabinet on the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation shows the map propped by a chair.pic.twitter.com/NdA17JKIeg

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

      More on the mapping of freedom & slavery here: http://www.mappingthenation.com/index.php/chapter/index/4 …

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

      The Confederacy has been commemorated for many reasons, not all of them bad. What needs to end is not all memory of gallant Southern soldiery & whatnot, but the downplaying of what the Confederate cause actually stood for. The best remedy for that is unblinking truth.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

          The hard truth of the Confederacy is that nearly 4 in 10 of its people lived in chains, in service of a tenth of their number, and everybody knew it.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

          The typical Confederate soldier fought for hearth, home, & honor, not for slavery. But he fought in slavery's cause under slavery's flag.

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

          The sons, daughters, & grandchildren of such men sought to honor them, for human reasons anyone can understand. Those sons, daughters, & grandchildren should be judged, not for remembering, but for forgetting - & for what they did with their own times.

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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

          We, the living, have the same duty: tell the truth about the past, & do justice in the present.

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        1. Orlando Maltravers‏ @RobertKYarbro 27 Jun 2020
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          It's not a choice on offer. You live in fantasy world of denial.

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        2. TxBbqDad‏ @txbbqdad 27 Jun 2020
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          Much like Germany commemorates Dacau and such. They don’t celebrate Nazi Germany, but they do want folks to remember how awful it was.

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        1. Stacey Farr‏ @martinfan 27 Jun 2020
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          Great thread with great info. Thank you

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        1.  🇺🇸 Steve TN‏ @sdo1 27 Jun 2020
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          The problem is your slanted version - spin, if you will - of what Southerners were, and by extension, are. Will you ever see? Dunno.

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