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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
 Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law
 University of Tulsa College of Law
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 Tulsa, OK  74104-3189
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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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> > http://www.educationalsynthesis.org
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