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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
I disagree. Had the Confederacy won, slavery would have still been abolished. That's assuming that the war was even fought over slavery which I'm not sure it was (Marx didn't think it did, among other of his contemporarys)
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As someone had stated earlier, it would have ended when there was no more money in it and either way it still created separate and unequal classes of people...don't make it sound like that the South would have ended slavery and all would have been well because that is far from the truth.
I dropped a link earlier that you can read where there were articles that the Confeds wrote that they wanted to defend their ownership of slaves. So While we already know that the entire war wasn't all about or just about slavery it certainly was in there
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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
The entirety of the point is this: Slavery is inhumane. People are cruel to each other. But to pretend that American slavery was much worse or much different than slavery elsewhere in the world is silly. There is no "slavery exceptionalism".
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But to think that slavery in America was much better or no big deal and just a small part of the Civil War is just as silly
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