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re: Robert e lee day
Posted on 1/16/17 at 3:23 pm to The Spleen
Posted on 1/16/17 at 3:23 pm to The Spleen
I hate when people use the term 'elementary', but it is very elementary and ridiculously simplistic to say the war was about slavery. It wasn't. Slavery was used to lubricate the engine of war.
You're thinking, no. It was about slavery. Everything can be traced to the South's insistence on keeping slave labor.
And you're right.
But like so many other things, having a note ring in tune and be true doesn't make it completely the truth.
It's easy to say it was about slavery and all things can be traced to it. That's easy. It takes no cognitive effort and it takes no real understanding and leg-work on your part.
You're thinking, no. It was about slavery. Everything can be traced to the South's insistence on keeping slave labor.
And you're right.
But like so many other things, having a note ring in tune and be true doesn't make it completely the truth.
It's easy to say it was about slavery and all things can be traced to it. That's easy. It takes no cognitive effort and it takes no real understanding and leg-work on your part.
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Posted on 1/16/17 at 3:40 pm to Sleeping Tiger
Well yeah, I could have written a 10,000 word treatise on all the factors that led up to the Civil War, but nobody would have read it.
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