re: #281 The Vicious Babushka

Meanwhile for those clinging to gauzy lies on the causes of secession, here it is in the South’s own words: slavery.

It takes a special sort of revisionist white supremacist mental acrobatics to go from “There were causes other than slavery that also led to the Civil War” to “Slavery was not a cause of the Civil War!”

And yes, it is true that most of the Confederate soldiers did not even own slaves…because slave owners with more than twenty slaves at home were exempted from the draft.

And again, remember, all you fans of Southern Heritage, that the reason for slavery was that the white settlers were too damn lazy to do all the hard work of raising tobacco, sugar and cotton, so they found it easier to import people as agricultural machinery and threaten them with hunger, hardship, pain, disfigurement or even death if they refused to work for free.