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I would personally choose something that involves a mention of the civil war and the end of the slavery but I'm sure that all decisions would be made based on totally other considerations. ...
... just another one term president that has an agenda that goes nowhere? Does Lincoln back away from his antislavery postion just enough to sway the south into beleiving he is not a threat to them in hi...
...rom the PBS series about the Presidents. They say they he was a white supremacist and fervent supporter of slavery. He was, on the other hand, the only Senator from a state the seceeded that remained ...
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An excellent paper, extemporaneous I suspect, but I fear that the party[ies] it is directed to will not read it. It doesn't agree with their biased
...ist, except Caldwell, claiming there was no racism in the North.
There's a difference between racism and slavery, you know.
n canfield...
...l, established an usually successful textile mill and New England was once again handsomely profiting from slavery. As it happens, Lowells' mill was built shortly after Northerner Eli Whitney had desi...
...vannah speech, about which so much has been said and in regard to which I am represented as setting forth 'slavery' as the 'cornerstone' of the Confederacy, it is proper for me to state that that spee...
... was at one time the richest planter in Mississippi.
Davis, like most white Southerners, did not believe slavery was just _in_ _general_. (Unlike the notorious George Fitzhugh, who argued in _Cannib...
Here is some more material showing that George Washington was not an excuse maker for the system of slavery. He wanted to get rid of it.
http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/classroom/slavery3.html
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Much of the discussion has drifted off-topic, concerning the Founding Fathers and their relationship to slavery, as well as reasons for fighting the American Revoluion. As long as this dicussion is...
...ts of the US Civil War.
Discussion might include, but are certainly not limited to:
*Specific battles *Slavery as it relates to the Civil War *Causes of the Civil War *The concepts of States Right...
So true! Up here in New England white folks benefited from slavery. The capitalist who owned the mills that spun cotton picked by black hands, made gudgeons of money and the workers who sweated in tho
...in this hemisphere through war and threat of war. It fought an internal war to decide political questions, slavery and state's rights. It gained a military, political and economic foothold in the Paci...
...'s my contention that in the period prior to the Civil War, most Americans either favored the instution of slavery or didn't give a damn about it one way or the other, and that those who actually oppo...
....,Vice Pres. of the USA etc. He ied n 1850 & was quite an enigma He was a dyed-in-the-wool states rights & slavery advocate & at the same time was dead set against secession. He worked hard to make st...
...ause politically correct historians prefer to connect the South and the Confederate flag with the evils of slavery. But history tells another side of the story, he said.
For the entire article go he...
In the movie Gettysburg we had General Longstreet speak out or should I say apologizes for Slavery. In the movie Gods and Generals we had General Stonewall Jackson make similar comments, just before t
...gality of secession is unquestionable also support the the theory that had any slave stated 'I secede from slavery' or something similar would have been given the same rights as the southern secession...
...s cause? How in the world could he possibly believe that his God would put his blessing on such an evil as slavery? Or putting that aside ask for his blessing in supporting a move to break up a govern...
... of how I personaly feel. I may intensely dislike someone like Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest for his views on slavery & his misconductat Ft. Pillow. This has nothing to do with his being one of the very ...
and that was of course the position in the union as well.
you do realize that chatel slavery existed in the Union until -after- the end of the war don't you.
if the writers of the Unites States Co
... waging the Civil War? Didn't he also try to say that the War was God's judgement on the United States for slavery?
If he had recused himself from the presidential race, buried his ambition and ego ...
There is, I think, a general presumption that when the topic of slavery is discussed, Southerners will concede that it was their peculiar institution, and that they alone should bear moral responsibil
...ail into the coffin of European intervention. Britain's public opinion would not support a war in favor of slavery; and Napoleon III of France (despite his pro-Southern views) would not act without th...
...s violently trampled the sacred unalienable right of government by consent. The federals answer that negro slavery was a terrible injustice. It has been demonstrated that Lincoln flagrantly and repeat...
new england outlawed slavery & did not secede , the south didn't and did. there is no moral equivalancy.
...d war against the Confederate States to liberate African slaves. This is false. The institution of African slavery was as lawful in the United States as it was in the Confederate States. Moreover, the...
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