Posted on 05/07/2017 7:01:58 AM PDT by Badboo
http://assets.civilwar.org/animatedmaps/civilwar-animated-map/?_ga=2.260762891.728501172.1494163380-233903159.1469498930#/playlist/1
Slanted heavily towards North was good and South was bad and that slavery was the cause of the war rather than economic greed by the north.
Yep, noticed that.
I have some family letters speaking of the hardships of lands and livestock taken by the Yankees. One letter speaks about the illnesses and relatives who have died.
Right. Any presentation that does not mention the tax issue that cased the war in the first place is a fraud perpetuating false history. Who knows what other critical bits and pieces are slanted or omitted.
The city of Charlottesville, VA has voted to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee. The Lee family are fighting back, but who knows how long they can withstand the tidal wave of Leftist historical revisionism crashing upon America.
After fouling Northern states, Socialist parasites are migrating in large numbers to the South, and such as VA, NC, SC, and FL are turning blue.
Combined with ‘RAT PC thought control and RINO fecklessness, assaults on our culture and history are proceeding apace and unabated.
Very cogent summary of the war, its beginnings, and its aftermath. And yet its lessons go unheeded, and the arrogance of certain elitists impel us toward a bloody repeat.
Slanted heavily towards North was good and South was bad and that slavery was the cause of the war rather than economic greed by the north.
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Cotton was our number one export from the early 1800’s until the late 1930’s. New England was particularly dependent on the South’s cotton as was New York City.
I despise northerners who do that. They have no appreciation of the southern way of life which is holding on by a fingertip these days. I’ve even noticed that the accent seems to be disappearing!
There was nothing in that presentation that suggested that the north was good and the south bad. It opens with the recognition that there was bad blood on either side.
This was a remarkably neutral “down the middle” presentation.
Since the confederacy’s founding documents claimed slavery as the reason... the so called economic reasons are that the north would not returned escaped slaves. The south thought of them as property.
I will agree that the average southerner did not own slaves and fought for all sorts of reasons. Unfortunately they were lead into war by the southern elites who wanted to maintain slavery
It’s like another Reconstruction.
Thanks for this.
Truth hurt?
It’s exactly Reconstruction. I will not be reconstructed and I do not give a damn!
A moment here in all the braying but do any of you donate to the Civil War Trust? I do. Have been donating for years.
Slavery was LEGAL when the war began. Thus impossible that it was the cause. That is the truth. The TRUTH is that Lincoln sacrificed the lives of over half a million men in the prime of their lives so that Yankee fat cats could keep stealing money from the South. The real slavery was economic by one section of the country to another. The north treated the South as though they owned them both before the war and especially afterwards.
And what taxes would those be?
Southerners are still fighting that war in their heads. I thought it was pretty neutral myself.
Slavery was the cause. Proven so far beyond doubt it isn’t funny.
See our “Patriot’s History of the United States.” Of the top 11 wealthiest states in 1850, 10 were in the South. The value of slaves as capital exceeded that of ALL railroads and textile mills in the north combined. Please don’t perpetuate nonsense.
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