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Removing Confederate Generals portraits?
12-19-2013, 10:43 PM,
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RE: Removing Confederate Generals portraits?
No, it isn't wrong.

A well-treated slave is a slave nonetheless. I can't see how giving someone opportunities and not freedom is any more benevolent.

Brooks Simpson, a highly respected Civil War historian in Arizona, wrote the other day on his blog about the questions surrounding slavery. Brooks has an ongoing issue with a rather obtuse person and is not one to suffer any fools gladly, so he can be somewhat acerbic. Yet that doesn't mean he's wrong.

https://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2013/...n-slavery/

Changing minds on this is futile, so I'm through on this topic.

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RE: Removing Confederate Generals portraits? - by Hess1865 - 12-19-2013, 10:16 AM
RE: Removing Confederate Generals portraits? - by Rob Wick - 12-19-2013, 10:43 PM

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