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Re: Presidents list

By: xcslewis in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 11 Oct 12 8:42 PM | 105 view(s)
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I hardly would have been easy-going about slavery. I am certain had I been alive in the 1850's I would have been an abolisionist.

The war resulted in the deaths of 620,000 Americans, the maiming of many thousands more, sorrow, despair, resentment and at a great economic cost.

Yes, slavery would have lasted longer and that was an injustice.

History is written by the victors. I make an honest effort to find the truth and often it seems things may not be as we beleive them to be. Others may choose to do so or not.

My opinion of Lincoln was entirely different a few short years ago.


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Re: Presidents list
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Thu, 11 Oct 12 5:52 PM 		Msg. 10760 of 54959

hi csl,

one extra point. i think you would be less easy-going about the probability and timeline of the south ending slavery if you happened to be a slave.

if it was more meaningful to you personally, i think maybe you would see the moral imperative to do something, not to wait, with more sympathy.

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