How Slavery Really Ended in America
24th July 2011
An excellent article (how surprising to find it in the New York Times) about one of the central issues in the Civil War, and the ways that it really affected the people in the trenches, so to speak.
It is almost impossible for us today to appreciate how people of the mid-19th century felt about slavery, most especially those who supported it; the obvious contradictions inherent in being a pro-slavery American are so clear to us, that we literally cannot conceive how anyone could see it any other way. And yet there were enough of them to fight a war. Wrapping our heads around that is the first step on the road to understanding similar evils in the modern world, from the Judenhasse that still afflicts the European upper classes to the way Muslims look at, well, everybody.
July 25th, 2011 at 08:55
Thank you for posting this. Truly an excellent piece.