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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's definitely about an offensive topic, but it does such a remarkable job illustrating the fact that the world isn't as neatly split into "good guys" and "bad guys" as we'd like to believe.[/quote]

Who are the “good guys”?[/quote]

The "good guys" are supposedly the yankees, while the "bad guys" are supposedly the confederates, but it's really not as simple as that. Humans are complex.[/quote]

No, in this case, slavery is bad, anyone fighting to maintain is bad, glorifying slavery is bad. Not to mention all the other things it glorifies (violence against women, sexual assault etc). Might these things have been acceptable back then? Maybe, but that doesn't make less problematic. [/quote]

So don’t read it because our delicate sensibilities can’t handle the “problematic” truth of history?

What else should we cut out? The Crusades, ww2, the French Revolution, the entire Roman Empire? Do you think it was all sunshine and roses? [/quote]

NP. It is not an accurate portrayal of history when there is not ONE savage beating or rape of an enslaved person or even a reference to those actions. It is not an accurate portrayal of history when there is not ONE instance of an enslaved person’s resistance or running away or helping others to escape. It is not an accurate portrayal of history when there is not ONE reference to a speech, article, argument or oration by an enslaved person or a free Black person, speaking out for justice. It is a highly romanticized version of slavery where each and every slaves just loves their captors, just wants to stay on the land where they have been forced to work, and is blindly loyal to their captors and the system. In fact they look down on freed enslaved peoples and jeer at them. So there’s that. [/quote]

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