01-18-2024, 07:12 PM
(01-18-2024, 05:45 PM)Dill Wrote: According to The History Channel, about 620,000 Americans on both sides died during the war, but 258,000 of those deaths were Confederate. So it might be accurate to say that over 600,000 died fighting over the question of slavery, but it is not accurate to say that number died TO END slavery. 258,000 (exclusively white men) died trying to preserve it. https://www.history.com/news/american-civil-war-deaths
Also wondering who or what is the source for the "whole white people are evil and the US is irredeemably racist argument"?
The site I got my numbers from;
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/civil-war-casualties
I failed to notice the blue bar was for all casualties, not just deaths. So one internet point for you. It doesn't detract from my point at all. Hundreds of thousands of men, the vast majority of them White, were killed fighting to end slavery.
