Quote:There's not much to say, most people buy the entire premise the noble North fought to free black slaves from the evil South. It's a narrative that's pushed in education, and ignores the gross abuse of power Lincoln displayed during the Civil War, the complex social and economical issues that lead to secession, and the result of an unsolvable union. 

I think that it's wrong that all of the Confederates like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are labeled as "racists" and "traitors", when most Civil War veterans fought out of loyalty to their States. This is apparently a very difficult concept for most Americans to understand in the 21st century. We cannot continue to view history with 21st century eyes, and judge it from a politically correct standpoint. You know, most Southerners couldn't even afford slaves to begin with. It was just the planters, along with a rich and influential social hierarchy in the South which pushed the issue. 

 

The South's stubbornness in trying not to industrialize as heavily as the North did in the 1840's-1850's really screwed everyone over in the long run. Most historians will try to defend the Native's and their attacks on colonists and settlers as simply trying to defend their way of life in the 17th-19th centuries; but were people in the South fighting to defend their way of life as well? No doubt. Slavery is a horrible institution; but can it be argued that we are not slaves ourselves in this day and age as well? we're told what to do and believe; and most of us follow it without query.

 

 

Whoa. That was deep.

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