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To: #3Fan
I think that anyone that prefers slavery and the murder, rape, and beatings that go along with it to go on for a few more decades over freedom for blacks isn't holding treue with the sense of the value of freedom that this country was founded on.

Here's your original question:
Is a few more decades of slavery acceptable to you with a Southern win?

And here is my exact response:
"If it resulted in better race relations after emancipation than what was created by the Northern carpetbaggers during reconstruction."

That you would prefer what occurred, with it's disaster in race relations and the extreme bitterness that resulted, to a gradual emancipation over a few decades that would have avoided these things and put civil rights many decades ahead in the long run, is just further proof of your irrational thinking. BTW, more black women were raped by Union troops during and after the war than had ever been accosted by Southern whites before it. That is a simple fact of history, just like Lincoln's race prejudice.

214 posted on 02/10/2003 4:23:25 PM PST by thatdewd (Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.)
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To: thatdewd
BTW, more black women were raped by Union troops during and after the war than had ever been accosted by Southern whites before it. That is a simple fact of history, just like Lincoln's race prejudice.

Your source for this claim, please?

215 posted on 02/10/2003 6:31:12 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: thatdewd
PS - don't forget that the US government still maintained relations with other nations that still possessed slaves, among them was Cuba, which ended slavery in 1886 IIRC.
216 posted on 02/10/2003 7:27:05 PM PST by 4CJ (Be nice to liberals, medicate them to the point of unconsciousness.)
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To: thatdewd
That you would prefer what occurred, with it's disaster in race relations and the extreme bitterness that resulted, to a gradual emancipation over a few decades that would have avoided these things and put civil rights many decades ahead in the long run, is just further proof of your irrational thinking.

Of course I prefer freedom for blacks over slavery for them. That you think that blacks would've been better off as slaves rather than free proves that I was exactly right about you and you have no concept of what freedom is.

BTW, more black women were raped by Union troops during and after the war than had ever been accosted by Southern whites before it. That is a simple fact of history, just like Lincoln's race prejudice.

Bwahaha! Like you have the exact number of time over 400 years that the master and his family took advantage of their situation with their female slaves. What'd they do, report to their local county clerk every time this occured so that an exact record could be kept? You're nuts. Another crazy made-up story from a neo-Confederate, but that's nothing new, is it?

221 posted on 02/10/2003 8:37:58 PM PST by #3Fan
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