talent scout Location: CO
Reply # 20
Date: Jun 22, 2009 - 12:22 AM EST
Roger Hedgecock quote…
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talent scout, don’t believe anything you read and not much of what you see! To set the record straight, what you read about the so called American Civil War has been and is being written by revisionist authors who are out to make money. Get the real facts! Read the period documents, letters, newspapers and diaries of the people who were there before, during and after The War. To summarize, The War was not fought over “slavery!” Show me evidence that Abraham Lincoln started a national war to free slaves? Didn’t happen! In fact Lincoln wrote in letters that still exist today and other documents that he would not oppose slavery if it would save the Union. He clearly didn’t have a dog in the slavery fight. The war was fought over states rights and double taxation…the same problems that are cropping up today. And, his Emancipation Proclamation was not released to free slaves but to declare them “contraband” and take them out of the South’s economy, which put them in the same class as cotton, mules, cattle, tobacco, etc. So called “freed” slaves were put to hard work building bridges, railroads, roads, etc. by the Union military forces. They weren’t “freed.” And, the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in territories and states which the Union had no control…yea that’ll work! Why didn’t he declare slaves free in the Nation? Face it, it was a PR move because the Union was doing badly in the battles up to then. And, finally there were many slaves in northern states, black and white, and there were black slave holders too. And, don't forget the "sweat" shops and factories that used child labor and worked people long hours six and seven days a week for little pay..."white slavery" is was called. Lastly, who do you think rounded up Africans and sold then to ship owners? Who do you think built and owned the ships? There were no ship building facilities in the South, those were in the Northern states and owned by northern business men. Northern business men operated the slave ships, bought and sold the slaves, mostly to South American buyers. Have you checked to learn who the large "plantation" owners were? Most were wealth English born. Most farms in the South were subsistent family farms. These dirt farmers wouldn't have gone to war for rich plantation owners. So, I simply ask you to do you homework and get your own facts before sounding off about a great falsehood perpetrated by people desperate to sell revisionist history books. Get the facts man…

Al