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11-30-10, 11:05 PM #63
Re: "South celebrates Civil War, largely without slaves"
I think it is silly for us debating what the Souths true reasons for seceding were.
I'm sure there were a lot of people that wanted to secede because of slavery, but I would be surprised if there wasn't an extremely large people who actually wanted to secede because of state's rights.
In my opinion, schools teaching the history that the Confederacy seceded because of slavery is mostly a result of the North winning. Pinning slavery as the south's morally wrong reason for seceding was great propaganda. That propaganda just continued on into the history books after the war. But taking wartime propaganda as history doesn't make it the truth.
(I grew up in Texas schools, what they taught me was that the lower classes where in it because of slavery, but the upper classes, the people who actually had money, slaves and an influence in politics, cared more about states' rights)Last edited by Blah64; 11-30-10 at 11:10 PM.
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12-01-10, 02:07 AM #64
Re: "South celebrates Civil War, largely without slaves"
No reason what you were taught isn't propaganda as well.
I was taught completely differently, and what I was taught makes sense logically (to me). Why would the lower classes care about slavery? A very small minority of Southern Whites owned slaves. I do not remember the exact statistics, but I know it was under 10%. The slave owners didn't care about states rights, they were afraid that congress would abolish slavery.
To get around congress abolishing slavery, the slave owners cried out that the issue of Slavery should be left up to the states, and used the Propaganda that the big, evil, Republican Government is encroaching on our state's rights to stir the non-slave owning majority.
Sorry, but I don't understand the logic of the non slave owners caring about slavery, and the Slave owners caring about states rights.
This whole post in kind of off topic, but I'd rather debate history than make fun of a bunch of crackpots.
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12-01-10, 07:57 AM #65
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Last edited by hawgballs; 12-01-10 at 07:59 AM.
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