Are There Only Two Sides in the Civil War Debate?

I've never heard anyone defend slavery. Can you name some names? There may well be people out there who do, but are they anything but on the fringe?

There have been several defenses of slavery in this forum alone.

Here's one example: http://civilwartalk.com/threads/what-makes-a-slave-a-black-confederate.89671/page-7#post-730426

In fact, the black confederate myth was started as a defense of the slavery system, as that post shows. If slavery was so bad, it goes, why did blacks fight for the confederacy? There a lot of that in this thread: http://civilwartalk.com/threads/what-makes-a-slave-a-black-confederate.89671/

Here's another example:
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/sla...the-us-without-the-war.1121/page-8#post-15649

We find a lot of defense of slavery as a "cradle-to-grave" system of care for the enslaved people.

Anytime you see a "slavery wasn't so bad" type post, it's a defense of slavery.
 
I've never heard anyone defend slavery. Can you name some names? There may well be people out there who do, but are they anything but on the fringe?

Did you read the blog I referenced in Post #190? It's several pages of defense of slavery. It's like many defenses of slavery that begin with "I'm not defending slavery but..." and then go on to make it sound like an act of charity.
 
I've never heard anyone defend slavery. Can you name some names? There may well be people out there who do, but are they anything but on the fringe?

I won't name names, but right here on this forum, just minutes ago, this was posted:

The discipline of slavery was a civilizing force.

followed by this explanation:

Whatever our moral objections to slavery are, the fact is the harsh discipline of slavery was a quick way to remake the newly arrived Africans.

And it's not the first time, nor will it be the last, unfortunately.
 
There was a third view.
The advocacy of the Lecompton Constitution for Kansas undermined this third view, and forced Stephen A. Douglas away from the South. It convinced people in the North that the third view would not work. One hundred and fifty years later, blog writers are still distrustful of the third view, because it is viewed as a rhetorical device to make slavery OK, and to make it permanent. George McClellan, West Virginia, and Kentucky represent this third view.
After Antietam, for a variety of reasons, including pressure from Britain, Lincoln had to abandon the third view.
He laid off George McClellan, and the hard war began.
 
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