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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
They murdered them wholesale. That isn't slavery, it is genocide. And the south was involved in that too. It was a horrible, horrible thing. I think that this illustrates the difference between you and I. For me, the past is objective; for you it is subjective. I have no interest in whitewashing it.
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You obviously don't know much about history here. They enslaved a great majority on reservations as well.
When Lincoln was elected, it was a done deal. His campaign wasn't one of anti slavery, but one of tariffs and policies to support northern industry over the South.