07-13-2015, 05:48 PM
(07-13-2015, 05:38 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: See Fred's
Pretty much. We tend to look at the Civil War through a lens of "good v. evil," which is something we do with a lot of wars. That lens creates the fiction that the northern states were fighting to end slavery, which was not the case at all. There were abolitionists in the north, but they were a small minority, and most of them still saw the slaves as inferior. They were fighting to keep the U.S. in tact.
It's interesting, because this points to something we often come across when looking at historical narratives. You take the viewpoint of all sides and mash them together to come up with something that looks more like the truth than any individual side is telling.
I don't really disagree with any of that. On the Smithsonian channel at 7pm tonight there is a program called "Civil War 360." Really interesting if you haven't seen it. And then right after it at 8pm is "Apocalypse: The Second World War". Then at 9pm "Fall of Japan: In Color". You can see this where all the babes will be hangin out tonight!
