I'm not defending having written three pages worth of politico-babble on
this list. I should probably be slapped around for that.
However, the text that you're responding to there wasn't written by me, and
I personally made no reference to the causes of the Civil War, which--as we
all learned in high school--was based more on the issue of states' rights
than it was on slavery, although slavery was obviously a prominent component
in the dispute over states' rights. You quoted the text I was responding to.
Cheers, and I'll be good from now on.
M.
Phillip C Hertz <crosstalk@map-point.com> wrote:
quoted 16 lines Funny that this is turning into a political forum.
>Funny that this is turning into a political forum.
>
>Not funny that Mr Korfhage believes everything they taught him in >high
>school.
>
>><<<<<1. Uniting the people isn't good or bad. It is simply uniting. >>In
>>1861,
>>one half of the United States was united in the belief that black >>men
>>and women imported from Africa should be owned by white men and >>women in
>>the Southern USA. The other half, of course, was united >>against this
>>belief.
>
>Contrary to popular belief the war between the North and South was >not
>about slavery. There were plenty of Southerners @ that time who >didn't
>subscribe to the belief that non-white, non-European peoples >were
>sub-human, and CERTAINLY plenty of Northerners who didn't oppose >slavery.
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