re: #367 akarra

re: #367 akarra

Jumping in again. I am led to believe that some legitimate arguments can be made that things might have ultimately been better had the Civil War not occurred. Folks with leftish sympathies - such as myself - do sometimes wonder how things could conceivably been worse for African-Americans than they were once Reconstruction was overturned. And the carnage would have been avoided. It’s not an argument. I just sometimes think about the possibilities. Like if the North had been able to string things along for five more years, and build strength so as to secure a quicker and more humane victory.

Further, the Civil War enabled the extermination of the Indians.

Of course, I am not defending any of this. I don’t know the history. Maybe it was all inevitable. Maybe the South forced the action. But I think we are at a remote vantage, and we forget just how terrible things were.

It’s impossible to weigh how many more years of slavery would have been better, than what happened to African Americans and Indians after the war, plus the number of dead soldiers and civilians.

The question troubles me.