On Tue, March 27, 2007 2:08 pm, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > Ignoring your point for a minute- you do realize that the Civil War was > about state's rights and wether a state could secede from the union, not > about slavery, right? The majority of the north wasn't anti-slavery. THe > abolishion of slavery was a republican political move postwar. It basicly > ensured all southern blacks would vote for them, giving them control of > the > country. It worked for over a decade too, until the Tilden-Hayes fiasco.
I'm not a Civil War expert but I am interested and have read a little about this. What you said sounds like one of those questions historians have been arguing about for 150 years and will be arguing about 150 years from now..... kinda like whether that Harrison Ford guy in BladeRunner was a replicant or not. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
