Well, it’s clear who can have an intelligent non vitriolic conversation.
If you think the confederates were heroes you got a screw loose.
They could have been heroes, but they were unwilling to give up their free labor.
“All men are created equal.”
Unless when they are a slave, black or white. Right? Indentured or forced, right?
“All men are created equal.”
I am not comfortable with it but the Declaration of Independence was written to defend and promote the Peculiar Institution. You do know that don’t you?