>>10282
>in a war that was cursed by the horror of slavery. The price for the sin of slavery...
Modern bias showing here in that commentary. One of the main reasons that the U.S. Civil War was fought is this: slavery. Slavery is bad, but slavery in the American South was really not a bad as other slavery in history. Source: this one historian with a Bachelor's degree (or some such degree) said that. The idea of slavery is not so completely horrible; described here: https://radishmag.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/slavery-reconsidered/ . It is interesting to think of a history where the Confederates won. I heard that the only major change to the U.S. Constitution that the Confederate States of America would have made is this: explicitly saying that no law should be passed to outlaw slavery.

Slavery is such an anti-progressive and anti-equality idea. It is also anti-freedom in a way. If Union and Confederate soldiers who died in battle were somehow able to know the current state of the Union in 2024, what would they think? Perhaps some would rethink what they were fighting for. And I would say that their opinions matter because they died for them. Slavery could be considered as a bulwark against the mental illness that is left-wingism or liberalism. So the value of slavery can be determined by its external/contextual reality and not just its internal truth.

BTW, Lincoln agreed with some main ideas that the vice president of the Confederacy said. Obviously they disagreed on the legality of slavery.

"Away down South in the land of traitors
Rattlesnakes and alligators
Right away (right away)
Come away (come away)
...
Where cotton's king and men are chattels
Union boys will win the battles
Right away (right away)
Come away (come away)