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To: Metacomet who wrote (264078)11/12/2014 1:32:43 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 540859
 
Meta, I think you misunderstood my point. If you read the post I was replying to I think you'll see that my point was that freeing the slaves wasn't the main reason for the civil war.

Assigning noble reasons for fighting wars in the history books of the winners and, conversely, imputing the most ignoble motivations to the losers is a given. Life is, of course, much more nuanced and filled with contradictions. Ed