Posted by John in La on January 25, 2015 at 07:07:58 from (96.33.136.54):
In Reply to: 12 days a slave posted by rkh on January 24, 2015 at 19:04:54:
That movie like most movies and things on TV are dramatized to make it interesting enough to get you to watch it. Even the history books our kids use in school do not tell the whole truth. The parts that are in the history books that do not meet the agenda of certain groups are passed over or forgotten to enforce what they want us to remember.
If the civil war was about slavery from the get go; explain to me how the southern states seceded from the union starting in December 1860 and ending in June 1861 but the Emancipation Proclamation was not drawn up until September 1862.
If the north was all about "freedom and equal rights to all men" Then explain to me why a white union private made $13 a month and his black counterpart made $7 a month.
Slaves were very expensive. Why would anyone ever beat the one thing that brought them wealth. It would be like you going outside and setting fire to your tractor.
If slavery was all about southern plantations then how do you explain that most of our founding fathers owned slaves; slavery was around long before the U.S. was ever a country; and we have words like "Choctaw freedmen" where the Choctaw were forced to set their slaves free.
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