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Half of America paid that price to keep slavery though, it’s just that they lost. Then that half invested new ways to screw over the same people for another hun
by DmenshunlAnlsis 8y ago
Half of America paid that price to keep slavery though, it’s just that they lost. Then that half invested new ways to screw over the same people for another hundred+ years.
- skookumchuck 8y ago320,000 Northern white men died to free the slaves. 258,000 Southern white men died for being slavers. It's a pretty high price any way you want to look at it.
- chickenfries 8y agoThe Union wasn't just executing southerners for being slavers, they were putting down a treasonous rebellion.
- tptacek 8y agoThe other way to look at it is that hundreds of thousands of Southern white men demanded a blood price of half a million lives to relinquish a right to chattel slavery that most of them could merely aspire to execute --- that such was the depth the depravity undergirding slavery reached.
- skookumchuck 8y agoAs I said, the usual price for freedom is blood.
- tptacek 8y agoThat's maybe a good song lyric but not especially useful as an argument here.
- pvg 8y agoFor the values of 'song' that include 'famous speeches by Mussolini/Schrute'.
- skookumchuck 8y agoThere are plenty of historical examples. For just American wars, we have the American Revolution, the Civil War, WW2, the Korean War, the Vietnam War. WW1 is a notable exception.