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47of74

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4. Lincoln was far too magnanimous

Reply to DirtEdonE (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 10, 2019, 08:26 AM

Mar 2019

We should have been much harder on the south after the war. Instead once we claimed outright slavery was defeated we didn’t do very much for over a century. We left the culture and institutions intact instead of doing the hard work of rooting them out and reforming them.

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154 Years Ago Today; Amy Spain is murdered by CSA - last slave executed [View all] Dennis Donovan Mar 2019 OP

Very interesting story Sherman A1 Mar 2019 #1

This in unimaginably horrible Rhiannon12866 Mar 2019 #2

America's nazi holocaust DirtEdonE Mar 2019 #3

Lincoln was far too magnanimous 47of74 Mar 2019 #4

Yup, one of the main things that should have been done was that everyone in the south cstanleytech Mar 2019 #7

Uneducated Roy Rolling Mar 2019 #10

Kinda' like what I want to do with trump voters. lol nt DirtEdonE Mar 2019 #13

The period after the Civil War Scubamatt Mar 2019 #11

Yes! The losers went home as winners! DirtEdonE Mar 2019 #12

I think the 13th is fatally flawed 47of74 Mar 2019 #15

Damn it. Can you steal from your family home? JCMach1 Mar 2019 #5

She probobly was Major Spain's daughter Farmer-Rick Mar 2019 #6

Different aliens during Old Testament and New? nt DirtEdonE Mar 2019 #16

Wheeler rawhideal Mar 2019 #8

Interesting expression: "last slave legally executed." marble falls Mar 2019 #9

"conduct unbecoming a slave" brer cat Mar 2019 #14