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Originally Posted by Baron1710
That was one old white dude!!
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Of course other black men did this ... but to dare marginalize this horrible chapter
in our history by making a white man the savior when many of them were the villain in this tragedy is sick.
Miss B... I know 1 million men died in the Civil War ... a war fought for many reasons ... but fought predominantly for economic reasons ... one being a workforce that cost next to nothing ... a move from an agrarian economy to an industrialized one ...
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Confederacy ... which Lincoln had no jurisdiction over ... and we did not do so in the Union until after the War ... and NO LINCOLN WASN'T alive when we did so Constitutionally.
Some historians note this was a political move at a crucial juncture in the War for personal expediency as the South was advancing ...
In the end ... it was abolished w/ much bloodshed.
Only to be replaced by another form of "slavery" ... sharecropping and segregation.
The latter ending on a legal level just 40 years ago.
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