[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed. To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

See above for first reading of the month.

[ml/nj]

Lots of people are pissed off about the circumstances of their lives. I reject the notion that slavery, especially Southern slavery, has been the worst of all possible human conditions. So, for example, I would much rather have been Thomas Jefferson's slave than to have been a coal miner in West Virginia. (Or these days, to be a fatherless urban "youth") I know it is not politically correct to say so but I believe the conventional revulsion concerning slavery stems from the North needing some sort of moral justification for the war that they perpetrated upon the South.

FTR, I have never lived south of Long Island, NY. I've just learned that all I was taught in high school wasn't all there was to learn.

ML/NJ

[Albion Wilde]

bump for later reading

[higgmeister]

Thank you for posting this. It reinforces my Republican character and beliefs that I have held all my life. (Well, the stories my Grandmother told of the hardships of the Great Depression and the evil and corruption of "The New Deal" helped a little)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from beginning of this thread.

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"The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," by Frederick Douglass, (1892 edition)

[Albion Wilde]

bump for later

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January 17, 1856 Alexander Stephens and Felix Zollicoffer debate slavery in the territories.

[bmwcyle]

bttt, good work