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[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]

The historical record shows that the South didn't want to just maintain slavery, it wanted to EXPAND slavery into the westward territories.  That is one of the major points that brought things to blows in Congress during the run-up to the Civil War.[/quote]

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