It’s definitely a blow for the “the civil war wasn’t about slavery” crowd lol. Like I’m all for not judging the past by modern morals and acting like confederates weren’t as human as the rest of us… but pretending the civil war had nothing to do with slavery is simply a farce.
Also check out Alexander H. Stephen’s (Vice-President of the Confederate States) Cornerstone speech.
“The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.”
“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.”
It’s amazing the amount of mental gymnastics slavery apologists commit to considering the wealth of primary sources describing how the succession and war were directly related to slavery.
Let’s play a game, look up the states articles of secession and see how many words you can make before you see a word starting with ‘slave’
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
By my count, Texas maybe goes the longest before mentioning it, but they all do.
Fucking yikes Mississippi.
It’s definitely a blow for the “the civil war wasn’t about slavery” crowd lol. Like I’m all for not judging the past by modern morals and acting like confederates weren’t as human as the rest of us… but pretending the civil war had nothing to do with slavery is simply a farce.
It had 100% to do with slavery. The south would not have been the cotton king with out them.
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*secession, succession is something else entirely.
thanks, fixed
Also check out Alexander H. Stephen’s (Vice-President of the Confederate States) Cornerstone speech.
“The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.”
“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.”
It’s amazing the amount of mental gymnastics slavery apologists commit to considering the wealth of primary sources describing how the succession and war were directly related to slavery.
That’s some heritage they had going.
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Yea it seems like NC was trying to fence-sit and basically got knocked off the fence by the battle of Fort Sumter.