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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I'm an immigrant and this whole rewriting of history by the winners is amazing to me. The southern states waned to be independent, just like US wanted to be independent from Britain just a hundred years prior. Americans won, so they are heroes. Southerners lost, so they are traitors, right?

And don't kid yourself - the North did not go to war to free the slaves. Lincoln did not give a flying f&#k about them. In fact, in his inaguration speech he assured the South that they would get to keep their slaves. Lincoln cared about power, and a divided America would not be as powerful, so Lincoln proceeded to burn the South to the ground to get what he wanted. [/quote]

The North may not have gone to war to free the slaves, but it definitely did not go to war to maintain slavery -- that is what the South did. There is no moral equivalence between the two. [/quote]

Slaves would have been freed several decades earlier had the US remained part of the British empire, so you could use the same logic to question the US war of independence and constitution, and to express disgust at anyone displaying the star and stripes flag.

History is complex. Selective, faux outrage doesn't help much other than to drive website traffic.[/quote]

History is complex, even more than you appear to realize. Slavery was not abolished in the British Empire until 1833. By then, most of the northern states had already abolished it. So, while you may be correct with regard to southern slaves, slaves in northern areas would have remained in slavery for longer than they did.

There are many aspects of American history -- and even today's America -- that are regrettable. I don't deny or even celebrate them. Regardless of his intentions, Abraham Lincoln did eventually free the slaves. To suggest that there is any moral equivalence between him and the Confederate leaders is reprehensible. 
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