tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post171869004642536815..comments2024-03-28T00:01:34.598-07:00Comments on The Galloping Beaver: Slave beatings and lynchings to follow ...Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-90427060470056240752010-12-13T12:19:12.060-08:002010-12-13T12:19:12.060-08:00HNN has some relevant comments in an article relat...HNN has some relevant comments in an article relating entrenched slavery to our entrenched use of fossil fuels:<br /><br />http://www.hnn.us/articles/134463.html<br /><br />HNN also links to this book ad (excuse the Amazon link):<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Confederate-Neo-Confederate-Reader-Great-Truth/dp/1604732199/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290554760&sr=1-5Holly Stickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01137842937086115228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-86299819411902670132010-12-13T10:43:51.030-08:002010-12-13T10:43:51.030-08:00The SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Centre) is another ...The SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Centre) is another good source of fisking slaver-backed rewriting of American history.<br /><br />But you can't exclude the Know Nothings of the antebellum period of the US as a founding mentality either. The anti-immigration and anti-any.religion/culture.that.isn't.ours fervor going on in modern times smacked me (and of course many better historically Nileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04096047389811381098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-39078548592557113742010-12-11T16:44:10.701-08:002010-12-11T16:44:10.701-08:00Also typical of the Tea Partiers is their belief t...Also typical of the Tea Partiers is their belief that they have moral superiority through their religious beliefs, i.e. the Bible condones ownership of slaves:<br />"...[the North has invested a great political error with the sanction of more <b>erroneous religious belief</b>.]"Olehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09286185445221490454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-43715369879799574282010-12-11T15:33:49.879-08:002010-12-11T15:33:49.879-08:00Dave Niewert has written quite a bit about this qu...Dave Niewert has written quite a bit about this quite a bit at Orcinus. He says Lincoln was desperate not to start the War, but the Southern States not only demanded to keep their own slaves, but would not tolerate the "insult" of having new territories in the west be slave-free. The idea now that the "war of northern aggression" was not about slavery is just revisionist.Cathie from Canadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11418899090537597360noreply@blogger.com