Subj : The Birth of a Nation (19
To : Dumas Walker
From : MRO
Date : Wed Oct 19 2022 09:03 pm
Re: The Birth of a Nation (19
By: Dumas Walker to ARELOR on Wed Oct 19 2022 08:46 am
> If you consider that most early blacks arrived as slaves, and the issue of
> slavery was a contributor to the Civil War, that quote has truth to it.
I think slavery as a contributer to civil war was a red herring.
If you look at the declairations of secession from the states that wanted to leave, they had valid reasons.
Slavery played a part, but it wasn't the only reason.