Civil War
Friday, October 12th, 2007
I was reading today on The War of Northern Aggression oops, I meant The American Civil War. This is a site I had not explored before, but I did find some interesting tidbits on it. This one was particularly striking:
if the Northern states had bought out the slave-owners and traffickers the cost would have been a fraction of what the war cost in money let alone in lives
This supports the contention of many (including yours truly) that the war was not only about slavery, but about other factors, and while slavery played a role in the conflict, it was used a s a focal point in a much larger ideological dichotomy. Check out the site for more on that.
And now a word for those of you (yankees) who wonder why this is still such a big deal: you’re not from here, are you? It’s only been 2 lifetimes since Sherman marched to the sea, ya’ll, and the collective memory goes back a long, long way. There are areas in the South that have still not recovered from that particular punishment.
