Sorry, I made the mistake of thinking this was an issue of the politics involved with why a war occered and who was in the clear, not the social history of the slaves. And before anyone anyone points out that I brought up the social position of the people at the time or near time of the issue, consider just that; it was AT the time of the issue, not how their future was to unfold and what they would be today.jetbaby wrote: Travesty? Not caring for? Do you realize that the African slave population in the United States is the only slave population in the recorded history of mankind that has a slave population that shows positive growth on its own (i.e. without constant influx of new slaves)? When was the last time you saw a slave race become the societary equals, if not betters due to reverse racism and "repaying" of "debts."
As for forgetting history and not analizing it, not remembering history for those that survived it, looking back to a certain time seems reasonable, but when there's not a damn person alive that lived the period and can say yae or nae to the presumptions you're making off the paperwork you've shuffled through, how much of a truth are you expecting to exact from the escipade? What do you expect to draw from this knowledge, even if you were to come to some grand realization of the truth of the matter? Will dead men come to life because YOU know why the war happened, or will someone finally be relieves to really know why they were fighting from some 20 year old pencil-pusher on his way to a bad case of hemeroids? No, no one's coming to life, no one's left alive to be relieved by this debait unless they're living in the past. However, I'm derailing this thread with this, so I'll hop off the tracks.
