Things that made you laugh today (Political Version)

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

It's kind of funny how people nowadays viewed the North as "the good guys" that wanted to "end slavery."

Shit, even after the civil war "free blacks" in the north were still subjected to racism, hiring discrimination, education discrimination, voter discrimination, violence, and all of the other wonderful things people attribute to the south. The idea that the north were some sort of advanced people hundreds of years ahead of the south is the stuff modern people made up to feel good about the history of our country.

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Wait.. Seriously?

There are no words.

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Originally Posted by time4fun

Wait.. Seriously?

There are no words.

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Use your words, Ms Used To Teach History. What am I wrong about?

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

Use your words, Ms Used To Teach History. What am I wrong about?

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Don't keep me waiting.

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Originally Posted by tyrant-201

Abolition came about as a tool of war.

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This is absolutely incorrect. It came about through religion. It came about because good people did realize and know that keeping other human beings as slaves was wrong.

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Originally Posted by Neveragain

When talking about the Civil War an honest historian has to look at slavery through the lens of the era and not through todays magnifying glass.

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Bullshit. People knew back then it was wrong.

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

It's kind of funny how people nowadays viewed the North as "the good guys" that wanted to "end slavery."

Shit, even after the civil war "free blacks" in the north were still subjected to racism, hiring discrimination, education discrimination, voter discrimination, violence, and all of the other wonderful things people attribute to the south. The idea that the north were some sort of advanced people hundreds of years ahead of the south is the stuff modern people made up to feel good about the history of our country.

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That is exactly why the North fought the South. No, the North wasn't paradise for black folks at the time. But they weren't held against their will, beaten, raped, made to work for free, stripped from their families, lynched for trying to run, or any other hellish condition they faced in the south.

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Originally Posted by Back

Bullshit. People knew back then it was wrong.

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This is why I made the comment. At the time it was comparable to the pro-life movement of today, they knew it was wrong but did it anyway.

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Originally Posted by Back

That is exactly why the North fought the South. No, the North wasn't paradise for black folks at the time. But they weren't held against their will, beaten, raped, made to work for free, stripped from their families, lynched for trying to run, or any other hellish condition they faced in the south.

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You have a painted version of reality. It's already been stated that there were northern states that allowed for slavery.

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Originally Posted by Neveragain

You have a painted version of reality. It's already been stated that there were northern states that allowed for slavery.

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That may be the case but in general the North was anti-slavery and defended themselves from the pro-slavery secessionist south.