Were Confederate soldiers terrorists?

[XODUS1914]

Elephant Walk- I think everyone understood who I was referring to when I said 'Native Americans'. That's term has never been used for anybody outside of North America. You say millions of native South and Central Americans being killed. Really? By whom? and When? If you are talking about the African slaves and thier descendents, then you are proving my point.

And something else. The days of slavery may have been numbered due to the Cotton Gin. But only in the form that we know it. Even if the South won, the attitudes of 300+ years of institutionized brainwishing and perennial second-class citizenship doesn't just disappear overnight just because there's no work to be done. Perhaps the South could have used all of the free manpower to man and build factories and compete with the North as an industrial giant. Who knows?
Hell, the South lost and Blacks didn't get full legal equality until 100 years later. What makes you think if the South won, they would not have been treated 10X worse, having a won a war over the ability to own another person as property?

And stop with this "All salvery is inhumane, so all salvery is equal". That is just pure nonsense and proven historically over and over again to be false. Slavery in America was the first time one group of people targeted another group of people based on skin color, for perpetual enslavement with a wholistic focus on wiping out the culture, language and history of the group being enslaved. Not for a finite purpose, or by terms of surrender or for religious conversion (all which requires a level of humane treatment), but for expressed consent of creating a permanent underclass to be the engine of building a new country.

Your relatives left Russia to escape slavery, right? And they were able to blend in with the Germans to escape detection, right? Them along with millions of other folks, correct? When an African slave escaped from a plantation or jumped off a boat comming from America, where were they supposed to go?