[DiogenesLamp]

They say it was justified because they were just killing people who held them in slavery, but would most Americans see murdering all white Southerners after the Civil War as a great, admirable idea too?

I've read that about 28% of them died as a result of the Civil War. Apparently after the destruction of the Civil War, nearly 2 million people in the South died from starvation, exposure and disease, as a consequence of the invasion and conquest by the forces of the Northern states.

Probably didn't get into the northern papers much because they were still trying to justify the mass murder they committed in preventing Independence for the Southern states.

[Bull Snipe]

Cite a reliable source for the 2 million death figure from starvation and disease in the South after the Civil War.

[DoodleDawg]

Probably didn't get into the northern papers much because they were still trying to justify the mass murder they committed in preventing Independence for the Southern states.

Or maybe because it never happened?

[suthener]

“Probably didn’t get into the northern papers much because they were still trying to justify the mass murder they committed in preventing Independence for the Southern states.”

The victor writes the history.

[Architect of Avalon]

There had to have been a better way to end slavery, say by giving all slaves free passage to the land that their ancestors had unjustly been taken from, and instituting a free labor system to replace them in The South.