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To: cuban leaf
I didn’t learn until over a decade later that Lincoln added the slavery issue to get more political and cultural support for the war, which was not going well.

Interesting - you "learned" things that aren't at all true. It was indeed about slavery and white supremacy - the Confederate states said so quite plainly / explicitly in their statutes that they passed to secede from the United States as the sole reason for doing so. Their politicians said so in their speeches. I take them all at their word. Original sources straight of what they said with their own pens and their own mouths - not what someone "said" they said. I think they know why the seceded more than revisionists trying to whitewash the reality of it after the fact.

10 posted on 10/24/2021 12:01:37 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Did they bring it up because the oh-so-righteous Northerners brought it up?

Perhaps so. I mean, we’re talking discussions going on nigh 40 years to this.

Don’t be deluded about how important slaves were to Northerners. First of all, slavery was allowed, period, including in “loyal” states. Abolitionists were not overwhelming. Just like today’s liberals, they were the loudest and the most obvious for same. Plenty of Yankees said they were not interested in dying for some black slave.

Please tell me where these “revisionists” are and how much power they have over the narrative. You won’t find any of that revisionism (if it is) in textbooks today, nosirree.


22 posted on 10/24/2021 12:12:26 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Wild Kitty, I could use your help in the spring with my garden. I be needen mo fertilizer.


37 posted on 10/24/2021 12:38:12 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Republican Wildcat

our current federal government is run by demonrats...

their actions and double standards prove the kung flu is a lie and a scam...


38 posted on 10/24/2021 12:40:25 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Republican Wildcat
the Confederate states said so quite plainly / explicitly in their statutes that they passed to secede from the United States as the sole reason for doing so. Their politicians said so in their speeches. I take them all at their word.

I agree that when a group declares their intentions we should take their word for it.

68 posted on 10/24/2021 1:09:27 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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