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M Dogg™:
Is this about the series or the Civil War. Because I can talk Civil War and it had everything to do with slavery, and the railroads benefited at the end.

Sami:
If only Sherman had been allowed to crush the South more harshly we would be in a better position today. Damn neo-Confederates.

Shallow:

--- Quote from: M Dogg on April 03, 2013, 07:43:05 AM ---Is this about the series or the Civil War. Because I can talk Civil War and it had everything to do with slavery, and the railroads benefited at the end.

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I'll never deny that there were very evil slave owner's in the south that poured a lot of money into the Confederacy during the war, but I maintain that the ideas of slavery and racism being the true roots of the war and in the hearts of the people fighting are exaggerations perpetrated by media and revisionist historians in an attempt to vilify the south, and more importantly; deify the north. Even with people like Robert E. Lee likely to takeover after Davis the public today think that had the South won blacks would still be slaves today.

Of course my personal theory is that the war was only created in order to create chaos. I mean what was the end result? Instead of moving westaward with slaves and building the rail road, the southern elite simply worked along side the nothern elite and used the same blacks for a wage that ended up costing them less than what they would have spent feeding and sheltering te slaves. The major slave owners that helped fund the war for the south were all given their lands back and most of their slaves, initially, stayed with them as workers that were not given anything close to equal pay.

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