06-24-2015, 12:45 PM
(06-24-2015, 12:40 PM)fredtoast Wrote: You can't just argue that any viewpoint is excusable because the people who held that belief felt they were correct. The people who owned slaves did not think they were wrong. That does not excuse their actions.
The American Revolution was illegal, but it was a revolt against the exploitation of a colonial overlord. Therefore I feel it was justified. I don't just think it was justified because we won. If there was a war like this today that did not involve my country I would be against the exploitation of a colonial power.
And I also realize that most of the southerners who took up arms were just defending their "homeland", but they were on the wrong side. Not because they lost, but because their side started a war for the wrong reasons.
Indeed. There has been a lot of talk about "state rights", but ultimately it was their "state right" to own other people without interference from non-slave states and the government they were fighting for.
