Do the descendants of the 596,670 death, seriously wounded, or MIA Union soldiers who fought for their freedom get anything?
That’s roughly one man’s life lost or ruined for every four slaves freed. Something like 1/4 of the men in the entire Union.
No country, in the history of the world, has fought itself — let alone at such a high price — to free an enslaved population.
Do they actually expect us to feel guilty?
“Do they actually expect us to feel guilty?”
I’ve never felt guilty, don’t feel guilty and will never feel guilty about what happened 200+ years ago, with other people. Not all Americans who happen to be black, feel that way. Only the lowlife, knuckle-dragging, lazy, scumbag ghetto rat garbage do. And those leeches don’t count for squat, IMO.
The Union didn't fight for "freedom", they fought to subjugate others and *FORCE* them to be ruled by corrupt Washington DC.
The idea that they were going to free the slaves only happened nearly two years into the war. Initially they fully intended to keep them slaves forever, as demonstrated by Lincoln and the Republican's efforts to pass the Corwin Amendment, guaranteeing slavery forever.
No country, in the history of the world, has fought itself — let alone at such a high price — to free an enslaved population.
This one didn't either. They fought for the 750 million dollars per year that was at stake from the South's economic production, which the Rich, Wealthy elite of the North were controlling, and wanted to continue to control.
The war was over money. The claim that it was about "slavery" was just propaganda used to justify what was really a fight over power and control.
The North didn't even free the slaves in it's own slave states. (Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and West Virginia.)