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Ancestry/Genealogy

no_hypocrisy

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3. "Destroying the institute of slavery" was tantamount

Reply to Montauk6 (Original post)

Tue Apr 20, 2021, 11:04 AM

Apr 2021

to the general premise of destroying capitalism and American Democracy. Therefore, anti-American.

That’s how the Confederacy was sold to those without plantations and/or slaves.

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SPEAKING OF newspapers.com... [View all] Montauk6 Apr 2021 OP

I know that Lincoln was a Republican, but we all know who the true ideological inheritors Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #1

The "equality and independence, under a Southern Confederacy" LastDemocratInSC Apr 2021 #2

"Destroying the institute of slavery" was tantamount no_hypocrisy Apr 2021 #3