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Originally Posted by naraht
Would people rather see a statue of a Union Soldier who owned slaves or Confederate Soldier who didn't. (Both situations did occur, mostly in the border states, but I'm not sure the highest rank held by soldiers in these situations.
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Gonna have to say the Union soldier. I think it's probably even more noble for someone to have the courage to risk one's life to end an institution one was benefiting from because it's the moral thing to do. People change. The slave owners who fought for the North and kept fighting when their slaves were freed seem to be pretty noble people.
To be a slave owner who thought it was moral must have required some pretty serious internal moral jujitsu. To be able to flip on those beliefs and come around to reality and risk one's life to end that institution? That's not so bad.