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Subject: Re: Abraham Lincoln waged The War Between The States to SAVE THE UNION and not to free the slaves!
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:25:42 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mar 23, 10:17 pm, ""
<> wrote:
> On Mar 23, 4:29 pm, "" <> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 23, 12:28 pm, "Ray O'Hara" <> wrote:
>
> > > <> wrote in message
>
> > >news:...
> > >    Not when people bring up the white "slaves" brought to the Colonies.
>
> > > yes white slavery was such a problem.
>
> >     Talk to the Aaron guy...he brought it up.
>
> yeah, i brought it up, because it is part of the history of slavery
> worldwide

What does worldwide history have to do with US slavery? Surely,
"They did it too!" is not a good argument.

>
> apparently revisionist historians believe they can verbally
> disenfranchise American southerners
> from our ancestral past with their magic wands, but that's a bunch of
> nawthern bull patties

How does anyone "verbally disenfranchise" anyone?

> we CSA descendants are proud of our past, our history, our flags, and
> our ANCESTORS

All of it? I hope not.

> we recognize history as history and revisionist propagandists as
> revisionist propagandists
> times have change, but history is history, and we can talk about it
> honestly without revision

Actually, history is not history. It's open to interpretation, etc.

>
> aaron


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