Reply #112: That's odd....

[DoNotRefill]

"They fought under that flag so that they could continue to own black human beings."

Considering that it was legal to own slaves in the NORTH longer than it was in the South.

Saying "The Civil War was about slavery" is not factually accurate. Remember, in Scott v. Sandford, the South had WON in front of the Supreme Court. Even FREE african-americans were denied Citizenship by that decision.

I suggest you go back and read some of Lincoln's speeches. If you do, I think you'll find that he wasn't QUITE as "enlightened" by today's standards as you may have been led to believe. In fact, if he were a politician today with the positions he held then, he'd be to the RIGHT of David Duke. Back then, that made him a progressive.