[ SECRET POST #3580 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3580 ⌋

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HELLO. I AM AN ACTUAL HISTORIAN.

[chardmonster]

YOU ARE KIND OF FULL OF SHIT.

I mean I know what you're doing, but feels ain't history. History is fucked up. The people of the past are not like us.

First, there was a draft in the South. On top of that was a lot of social pressure. You can't really get away with not joining up. I mean unless you want total social isolation and possibly getting beaten up. Most human beings aren't that strong.

Second, there's the fact that the North was literally invading the South. For some soldiers it was more about regional loyalty than loyalty to slavery as an ideal.

Third: I hate to say it but most of the North wasn't much better. Abolition only becomes really mainstream in the 1850s. A lot of people didn't think this was really a thing--and abolitionists crazy--until they read Uncle Tom's Cabin and got sad. And believing slavery was wrong did not mean they weren't horrible racists. Hell, there were Northern political movements specifically against ending slavery because freed slaves would take jobs.

If you want to hate someone, hate Confederate leadership causing all this fucked up death. But it makes no sense to hate Random 20 Year Old Who Died 150 Years Ago. Hate someone alive right now.

Re: HELLO. I AM AN ACTUAL HISTORIAN.

[(Anonymous)]

this. it's really easy for people today to say that they would have stuck by their principals and refused to participate in war while under duress, but the fact is that most people probably would have done it because there would have been severe consequences not just to them, but often to their families as well