Reply #30: That little inconvenience called slavery ended

[Zomby Woof]

Those 600,000 did not die in vain.

The war ended slavery, when compromise after compromise, beginning with Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence and its emancipation clause being struck by committee, to Missouri in 1820, to the failure of Bleeding Kansas... say what you will, but the war, due to Lincoln's political acumen, did what all of the previous failures of political will could not: It freed enslaved human beings.

I think of all the great music, art, literature, theories and other contributions of African Americans since then that would have not been possible had the slaves not been freed. Our culture is MUCH richer for the presence and enduring contributions of the descendents of ex-slaves. For the sake of staying true to one of the founding ideals of freedom, to prevent any further hypocrisy and mockery of liberty and due process, this nation should not have endured one more moment of forced servitude than it did.

I have read your Confederate apologia on DU long enough. It is grotesque and insane.