Thank You for your reply Bob. Certainly you can agree that the major slave market in Brazil was NOT erected to educate about slavery.
The statues are not in place to “glorify” an insurrection either. The statues are nothing more than memorabilia of a major event in America that claimed many times more lives than both world wars. Bob, let’s not forget that the Confederate States of America was the last holdout of the Old Republic that was formed under the Original Constitution of America, The Articles of Confederation. The Southern States took their name from this founding organic document that is still found today within the first pages of the United States Code Volume 1. This is a fact.
No the southern states knew that slavery was on it’s way out, as can clearly be understood when one reads Section 9 of the Confederate States of America’s Constitution. This Section explicitly forbids the trafficking of African’s for the slave trade. So how can it be that the South ONLY fought the Civil war for a thing that they themselves were actively moving to extinguish?
Concerning the General Robert E. Lee, he openly opposed slavery. Gen. Lee even went so far as to write a statement and had it published in a prominent newspaper located in Washington, D.C. detesting slavery and called it evil, long before the Civil War. Gen Lee even went on to say that while yes he held slaves that he was already making preparations to free all his slaves within 5 years. As an aside, it is interesting to note that the so-called “Confederate Flag” that everyone on both sides of the isle are publicizing was NOT actually the Flag of the Confederate States at all, that flag was the Battle Flag of General Robert E. Lee, the leader of the Armies of Virginia and an avid abolitionist.
In closing, I would point out that I certainly am not the first to make the statement that the American Civil War was NOT mainly about slavery, here are some links to watch some videos on the subject if you so chose:
Bob I have to ask you this, “What was worse, involuntary slavery prior to the civil War, or voluntary slavery under the North’s share-cropping scheme after the Civil War?
I say without a doubt Share-Cropping was the greater evil……..and we still are tenant farmers today under a devilish system that creates debt slaves of us all.