My interpretation of History Channel’s Lincoln was that its very one-sided and from a far-left perspective. Where were the opinions of less-liberal writers?
I was taught (before schools became centers of leftist indoctrination) the stresses causing the civil war were:
Tariffs and taxes, intercontinental railroad competition, uncompromising ideological views between the merchant and farmer classes, along with the slavery issues.
Did you ever wonder why the vast majority of citizens from the south, who owned either a couple of slaves are none, would take up such a bloody civil war? It was because a regional political group wanted to force its views on everyone else. The democratic solution would have been to persuade fellow Americans that its beliefs were immoral, rather than perceiving them as evil and in need of cleansing by bloodshed.
Slavery was dying because it was becoming too expensive, along with its undesirable moral issues. Mechanization, and the ability to hire free-workers with low wages made slavery unprofitable and undesirable.
In slave countries in South America, slavery died out within the next several decades, and may I add, without the need for bloodshed.
Sorry I missed your post until now.
Thoughtful.
Just watching the last installment now.
I’m sorry but it’s sad to see that apparently Indians (real) are being drawn into this POC view of the war. Indian accents speaking all about slaves. Just find it weird.
Definitely the 1-issue view of it on here. Never mind the socialists that are paraded on it, including Uhbama.