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Originally posted by fastpat
[B]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?

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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?

I'm not talking about filtered accounts (from either side). Read about what people were saying and doing and arguing over.
I'm sure those books you cite are well researched , not so sure (on your word) that they are unimpeachable in their accuracy.

Good to hear. But what does that have to do with your feelings of the antebellum south ?
...and don't obfuscate please.




Your obfuscations to avoid answering speak loudly. Thank you.

I am against all that stuff. But lets clean up one room at a time - starting with the dirtiest