13 slave states in 1776. 10 or so in 1787. Enslaving other human beings was built into the USA DNA, though people want to pretend that it's just those D@mn Southerners that wouldn't get "enlightened" as quickly as their Northern brethren who's labor needs were easily met by starving Irish coming off the boats.
Liberals declare a new Morality, and then rant and rave because everyone in the Nation doesn't immediately accept whatever new found Moral religion they are pushing.
LGBT is but the latest.
It’s a shame that 350,000 loyal Americans had to die to make that happen.
Lying propaganda. Here we go again with the "They died to make men free!" bullsh*t. They did not. They died because they were forced to fight because the Dictator in Washington DC made them fight. Their options were prison or getting shot, so they fought.
The fighting man of the North did not give a F*** about slaves. They didn't care that slaves were oppressed. They simply didn't. Oh sure, there was the usual liberal kooks in the army that were all about Human Rights, usually from Massachusetts or some other reliably Liberal place, but the rank and file simply didn't care.
They were in the South fighting their brothers because they were caught up in a system that forced them to do it.
You want to talk about evil? What is more evil than murdering your family?
“They died because they were forced to fight because the Dictator in Washington DC made them fight. Their options were prison or getting shot, so they fought.”
Complete and utter hog wash. Only 6% of the 2,100,000 men that served in the Union Army over the course of the war were drafted into that army. The rest volunteered.
Over the course of the war about 750,000 men served in the Confederate Army. About 10% were drafted. The rest volunteered.