Tag: The Confederacy
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Reparations For Slavery Are Actually “Back Pay” That’s Long, LONG Overdue
Slavery, understandably, is one of those words that juices our emotions. Anyone with a history of being enslaved understands on a deep, subcutaneous level how that hangs on one’s sense of self. And that’s without ever having been a slave oneself. Slavery isn’t just one thing of course. It’s a lot of things, none of…
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First & Foremost, Slavery Was Stolen Labor
If I steal your car, I’ve stolen something you bought using money you made from the sweat of your brow. If I enslave you, I cut out the middle man as it were. I don’t have to steal your car to get what was yours, I steal your labor directly. It’s more efficient. More ruthless.…
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Never Mind ‘Winning The War’ If You End Up ‘Losing The Peace’ That Follows
History is littered with the lamentable stories of Cultures that ‘won wars’ but lost the subsequent peace that should have been the spoil of their victory. Case in point: The Union (The United States of America) v The Confederate States of America. Grant accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. The Civil War ending was the Union’s…