Funny that this is turning into a political forum.
Not funny that Mr Korfhage believes everything they taught him in high school.
quoted 4 lines <<<<<1. Uniting the people isn't good or bad. It is simply uniting. In> <<<<<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.
In case you think this is some kind of pinko rabble-rousing here's a short
excerpt from the National Archives and Records Administration website.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1,
1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The
proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious
states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Despite this expansive wording,
the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to
states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal
border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had
already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised
depended upon Union military victory.
Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave,
it fundamentally transformed the character of the war. After January 1, 1863,
every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the
Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy,
enabling the liberated to become liberators.
Just remember that life, and history, is not quite so simple...
And the guy in the white hat is not always as clean as he's like to make out...