re: #37 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There were plenty of people who had little or nothing to do with the propagation of slavery or sedition who suffered at the end of the Civil War. They are not being ignored, but seen as part of the overall suffering caused by that historical cataclysm.

Oh yeah, stop whining and trying to make it about White People just this once.

One of the things about living in the South most of my life is that I’ve had the Antebellum South and the Civil War rubbed in my face for ages. I’ve been to the Gray House, I’ve been to the old munitions factory in Richmond, I’ve been to various battlefields and other monuments to our national shame.

And the one thing you keep getting hit with over and over again is that the people who weren’t slaveowners either had ambitions to be slaveowners or were willing to make money off those who were. Slavery was a way of life in the South, there was no facet of life that did not either support or depend upon slave labor. An entire denomination of Christians owes its existence to a theological schism over the morality of slavery. It’s why those who try to defend the South by declaring “Not everybody owned slaves!” tends to torque my jaw somethin’ fierce.

I don’t doubt that there were those who lived in Civil War South who opposed slavery, secession, or both. Just as there were Germans who supported neither the Nazi Party or the Jewish persecution. It’s just funny how none of them spoke up until the white flag started waving.