My education is lacking? Ha! “Slavery was supported by all 13 colonies”! Baloney! Day One, the Northern States were fighting it.
Two, it is obvious that you have not read a SINGLE one of my posts. I have condemned every single person who participated in the Slave trade. That includes Yankee bankers as well as Arabs who trapped the slaves and the Jews who financed it and the Europeans who expedited it.
Slavery STILL exists today in Darfur and South Sudan and I am doing a very very small pitiful part in fighting it.
Also, I am a TEXAN! Not a freaking Yankee. Also, I am NOT Black and to the best of my knowledge, no one in my family owned Slaves. Thankfully, my Texan heritage does not prevent me from acknowledging that my proud state was WRONG when it came to the Civil War.
History may be written by winners or losers but slavery is a total crap. Any slave owner who owned slaves and did not free them before he died, deserves to burn in Hell.
I can understand a Slave owner getting slaves. But once he looked into the eyes of a Slave.. once he saw that the Slave wanted to be free.. and he did not free them.. that is where the line gets crossed.
Don’t bring “olden times” into it. 150 years ago was not “Olden times’ a la Old Testament. People fully knew the evils of slavery. Britain had banned slavery in 1834. Other European countries even earlier. This is the same crap used today about Abortion. The parallels are striking. People who are abortionists talk about their “rights”
Regarding the South and the “right to govern ourselves” pray tell who these “ourselves” were. The whites or the blacks or both? The South was an illegal democracy where (in some states) the majority of the population was not even able to decide.
So, WHO then made the South “decide”. 51% of whites? The Democrats of that time? As a total, the secession then was decided by less than a quarter of the total population??
How is that the South deciding?
Stop being an apologist for Slavery! What the South did in terms of Slavery nearly destroyed our nascent republic.
Also, on this board, we are all FULLY SYMPATHETIC to the abuses of the Northern Victors. We get it. They should not have burned and looted when the won. We get “States Rights”. However, none of that takes away the inherent evil of Slavery, the evilness of which was fully known even to the slave owners of their time. Yet they chose money over God.
If you want to fight for States Rights (which I do and which Texas proudly supports) start by acknowleding that States Rights do NOT begin by killing/enslaving someone.
I will again use abortion as my example. WHEN (and yes, WHEN!) Roe v Wade is turned over, I do not want a single Yankee state then passing a state’s right to abortion. No state can mandate killing of an innocent person.
Enslavement and Killing of the Unborn are NOT States Rights. Our Bodies belong to our Heavenly Creator!
‘Day One, the Northern States were fighting it.’
On this point you are in error. The first state to abolish slavery was Pennsylvania, in 1780, due likely to the dominant Quakers. Since the northern states used gradual abolition, there were still a few slaves in New Jersey in 1860.