Please explain to me what was the psychology that motivated so many
Southerners who did not and never had owned a single slave to "give their
all", as well as their lives, fighting for the continuation of slavery.
Please don't say that it was because they were thinking and hoping and
praying that someday, THEY TOO, might be lucky enough to own a
slave......what with this being the Land of Opportunity and all!
By the way, what was the percentage of Southern soldiers who did own slaves?
What was the percentage of Southern soldiers that did not own them?
Miz Gardens
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From: "paul finkelman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: Gods and Generals
Anne of course has it right; the point of secession was to preserve slavery
and
protect it from Lincoln, who was a theat to slavery, although very very much
a
long-range threat, until of course secession allowed him the military
option for
emancipation.
Paul Finkelman
Paul Finkelman
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Anne Pemberton wrote:
Funny you should mention the Clinton's. While you were depriving yourself
of your cell phone I was watching a program on the Clinton presidency, a
> > rebroadcast of a class of U or Arkansas, which is run on Friday nights
on
> > CSpan 2. Prior to the lesson, I was on the http://www.civilwarhome.com
> > site, checking out the State's Rights explanation under Civil War
Potpourri
> > on http://www.civilwarhome.com/statesrights.htm which pretty much
confirms
> > that the term State's Rights was merely a smoke screen for the intent to
> > spread slavery when the ethics of slavery were under scrutiny. The new
> > government of the Confederacy did not provide the "States Rights" that
the
> > south wanted from the US. So what was the point?
> >
> > Anne
> >
> > PS: don't own a cell phone, but have seen its use and abuse.
> >
> > At 11:46 PM 2/21/03 -0500, you wrote:
> > > I thought that overall the movie Gods and Generals was a
pretty good
> > >history lesson on the part of the Civil War that was portrayed therein.
> > >However, you probably won't like the movie if:
> >
> > Anne Pemberton
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