The story that will torment America's soul: A new film that brutally portrays

Mail Online ^ | 9/18/2013 | Guy Walters

[gibsosa]

Thanks again, always looking for good reading that isn’t leftie propaganda!

[Errant]

Were around all over during the war. In the South, too.

LOL, Yep... Folks around here used to call them carpetbaggers! The ones that were able, soon headed back north. The ones that didn't, are buried all over the south, but nobody knows were. ;)

[Errant]

I prefer the accounts of those who were there and lived it, if available. As you say, most everything today is propaganda.

[Nea Wood]

So let’s see, the guy was sold for $1000 about 1841, which according to the Historical Inflation Calculator I found, would be about $22,000 today.

True...and nobody paid a dime for the poor Irish, so they were disposable. Irish could be overworked, abused, mistreated and killed with impunity. The black slaves looked down on the poor Irish. They also looked down on the poor white dirt farmers who had it so much worse than the slaves did. Slaves were valuable, expensive possessions, so it behooved the slave owners to provide them with food, roofs over their heads, Sundays and the entire month of August off, and medical care when they got sick. Poor white dirt farmers and poor white factory workers in the North could only dream of such things.

[The Duke]

Hey, they’ve been talkin’ about “Red Dawn” now for goin-on 30 years! ;)

[jaydee770]

I’ve never owned any slaves and don’t know anyone who was ever a slave.

I dislike brutality as much as the next guy, but this seems like an attempt at trying to inflict another heaping helping of white-guilt.

I’m not buying.

[rktman]

Just another attempt to foment hatred for something that ended in this country 150 years ago. Well that is until the great(?) society kicked off in ‘64. Now we’ve got a bunch of folks who depend on “massa” for their health care, food, housing, etc. How many trillions have we wasted on this morass we’re in during the last nearly 50 years?

[Errant]

Here is one more recommendation for ya! ;)

Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton in the Civil War

"First published in 1958, Red River Campaign examines how partisan politics, economic needs, and personal profit determined military policy and operations in Louisiana and Arkansas during the spring of 1864.

In response to the demands of Free-Soil interests in Texas and the New England textiles manufacturers' need for cotton, Lincoln authorized an expedition to open the way to Texas.

General Nathaniel Banks conducted a combined military and naval campaign up the Red River that lasted only from March 12 to May 20, 1864, but was one of the most destructive of the Civil War."

[a fool in paradise]

I believe that each illustration’s hand lettered caption is translated into english in the book:

http://fuel-design.com/publishing/drawings-gulag/

Featuring over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev – author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III – this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918.

Baldaev’s work as a prison guard allowed him to travel across the former USSR where he witnessed scenes of everyday life in the Gulag first-hand, chronicling this previously closed world from both sides of the wire. The drawings, made during the Communist period, form a devastating document, a haunting echo of the works of Varlam Shalamov and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

With every vignette, Baldaev brings his characters to vivid life: from the lowest zek (inmate) to the most violent tattooed vor (thief), the practises and inhabitants of the Gulag system are revealed in incredible and shocking detail. He documents the contempt shown by the authorities to those imprisoned, and the transformation of these citizens into survivors or victims. This graphic depiction exposes the systematic methods of torture and mass murder of millions undertaken by the administration, as well as the atrocities committed by criminals on their fellow inmates.

[jaydee770]

How many trillions have we wasted on this morass we’re in during the last nearly 50 years?

I agree. Though countless politi-sluts would say "wasted" depends on your point of view. All those trillions in spending has culminated in buying off half the country's voters and those politi-sluts would passionately argue it was money well spent.

Where's the dang re-set button??!!

[gibsosa]

I’m on it! Appreciate it! :)