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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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There's a joke I've heard, "In middle school, you learn the Civil War was about slavery. In high school, you learn it was about states rights. In college, you learn it was really about slavery".
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As a non american I'm curious about these events. I see it as a fact the war ended slavery, but isn't anyone bothered about the winning heroes having used slaves themselves their whole life up until then? More than heroes I see them as ''I'm not bad anymore'' and demonizing their foes as a very hipocrite act.
If I was dealing drugs my whole life I wouldn't raise my voice too high to condemn other dealers just because I recently quit myself, although seems like for some works pretty well.
Many states has abolished slavery decades prior. It was highly debated at the formation of the country. It gets weirder that Thomas Jefferson was anti slavery while owning 600 slaves and as president, he abolitioned the international slave trade and advocated to end slavery all togather, but was against voluntary manumission. People are... complicated, often self serving but can recognize how the system is horrible...