[central_va]

I’m a Southerner, but I’m glad slavery in the South is over. It was wrong.

You cannot judge 19th century Americans using 21st century standards on race relations. Lincoln was a racist of the nth degree. The war was about states rights Lincoln even said so.

[rockrr]

You cannot judge 19th century Americans using 21st century standards on race relations. Lincoln was a racist of the nth degree.

Too funny! You say that and then in the next sentence you do it yourself! Sure - by today's standards Lincoln was a "racist of the nth degree" - but no more so than any southerner of the time.

[MagnoliaB]

There’s plenty of documentation of what Lincoln thought of blacks. He wasn’t even going to let the free blacks stay here. He developed The Chiriqui Resettlement Plan.

[Bodleian_Girl]

I’m not looking at it from a racial angle so much as a human suffering angle.

Reading about Thomas Jefferson’s bi-racial children who had it easy no doubt. But the whiter ones had to leave the breast of their family, never to be heard from again.

Then the regular slaves, mothers watching their children sold away. People bought and sold like cattle. I just can’t pretend anymore that God smiled on that and didn’t smite the South.

[jmacusa]

Hi ya General! Listen bub. The North went to war to preserve the Union and won. The South went to war to preserve slavery and lost everything. Keep that in mind General THE SOUTH LOST THE WAR!!