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Originally posted by JCF
Pat, you're wrong - you need to read more contemporaneous accounts of what was happening and less academic fantasy and conspiracy theories.

Those accounts, most of them at least, were written by the victors. They are not reliable, and no historian of any repute, would so state. Excepting the Lincoln cultists of course. Would you accept "The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy" by Jeffeerson Davis. Or the book by Raphael Semmes as contemporaneous enough? No, I thought not.

In fact, the books in the bibliography I posted are well researched, and are virtually unimpeachable in their accuracy. If you haven't read them, it's pretty obvious that you haven't, then you've no basis for criticizing them, do you?

You are opposed to slavery but not to states that practice it ? Or only opposed to governments you don't like that practice it ?

All the states that practice chattel slavery are in Africa today, and I'm opposed to any invasion to stop the practice.

I'm opposed to government slavery, i.e. "Compulsory Volunteerism" and the military draft. Was there something else?

The more abstract kind of slavery you talk about is awfull hard to eliminate as it exists in infinite forms. Slave to ones Porsche ; slave to ones family...
Me - I'm a slave to Love.

Your obfuscations to avoid answering speak loudly. Thank you.