While the “institution” of slavery is abhorrent, not all slave owners mistreated their slaves. If you read the “Slave Narratives” in the Library of Congress you’ll find that many freed slaves did not want to leave the plantations. It was where many were born and raised and was the only constant they’d known. Their master’s family treated them well and many even said that they were “like family.”
I don’t believe that this justifies slavery at all but it does show that not all slaves were treated like Toby in Roots.
Did I read that right: her great-grandfather was from Ohio but he went to Georgia with a gun and got shot?
Stay out of Georgia if you are toting a gun and plan on killing someone.
I applaud her intent and organization. Anything that promotes history and civil discourse is infinitely better than what we have now.
That being said, the monument destroyers have no time for reasoned discourse or consideration, they are a mob and are operating with the tacit, and in some cases explicit, support of academia, politicians and popular culture. They are tearing down monuments / statues of abolitionists, Lincoln, Washington and Columbus in addition to those of our Civil War. This movement is full of popular rage, a mindless moron march of progressive thought, untainted by a schooling which has voided history.
“Forced to serve under Robert E. Lee”? IIRC, it was the Yankees who had a draft and draft riots.
Was that Andersonville ???
Ive been there...
bttt
I’m sure that if the original slave owners could see how this all turned out they would have told the slave traders to keep their Africans.
My great grandfather started out with the 2nd Ohio Cavalry. When his horse rolled on him, he switched to JAG and got the death penalty for the southern conspirators at Ft Douglas. I never read a word he wrote hating the confederates that he fought.
I do believe the majority who fought on both sides were good people who found something they believed to be honorable and put their lives on the line to support that thing. I don’t believe it was slavery. States rights was the likely common confederate ideal. And once the higher ups set a war in motion, you weren’t fighting for an ideal so much as to defend your home and your family and friends.
For the first few years, before explosives turned war into present day horror, there was a military chivalry that led to respect of the fighters on both sides. And if you read Chamberlain’s description of the surrender at Appomattox, you’ll get chills down your back for the soldiers’ honor the North awarded the South.
All of this history is lost if we continue to allow liberals to educate the young to lose the past and enthrone liberal crud as doctrine. WE have to write history and WE have to publish it. And WE have to build the social networks that allow the good and the bad of history to be discussed rationally, with some control over the type of censorship allowed.
My YouTube channel lets me censor comments on the mideast war news tapes I put up. I refuse those comments with obscenities or those that are against our troops without polite reasoning. But I’ll let people who can argue in a controlled fashion go at it together. If GOPe wants more civility, fine, let them train moderators to control discussions on social networks that WE control.
BLM is not about slavery. It’s about using any means to change the narrative of success to one of failure so that the political point of view of liberals can succeed. We need to blast apart censorship with the same fervor our ancestors brought to their own battlefields.