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In reply to the discussion: Colo Ed Bd Member: Give U.S. Credit For Voluntarily Ending Slavery [View all]blackspade
(10,056 posts)29. Get this person off the school board. Now.
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Forget it - it did not happen. Our ancestors did not go to fight in it and Abraham Lincoln was never
jwirr
Oct 2014
#15
The Confederate States were volunteering to resolve the issue, once and for all.
eppur_se_muova
Oct 2014
#39
'The war of Northern aggression' just made them go underground. It wasnn't voluntarily.
freshwest
Oct 2014
#20
Truly it was Treason of the worst kind, against the best ideals that the Constitution promised.
freshwest
Oct 2014
#47
Do You suppose that this wonderful bit of information...about "voluntary end of slavery"
Stuart G
Oct 2014
#10
Oh she will not go that far. She will just want the extermination of 10 million people wiped off the
jwirr
Oct 2014
#16
What absolute bullshit . It's just more rewriting history to fit their ideology and attacking the
geretogo
Oct 2014
#12
I don't think it is not knowing. It is the same idea we have seen with the textbook controversy down
jwirr
Oct 2014
#18
"Materials should not encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law ...
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2014
#17
That sounds as if it could have been lifted from the pages of a Maoist China instruction manual
IDemo
Oct 2014
#40
You are correct - it was the 13th Amendment that ended slavery. The Civil War stopped the
24601
Oct 2014
#33
Voluntarily. Why do we elect these twits and history deniers? She has to be stupid on purpose.
marble falls
Oct 2014
#23
Sherman's March alone proves this politician is a jackass. A well-deserved march I might add.
wolfie001
Oct 2014
#32
If you watched "Gettysburg" you would know the South wasn't fighting to preserve slavery,
tclambert
Oct 2014
#36
The Southern slave owners said, "Your right! Slavery is wrong! We'll free them! No need for a war!"
DesertDiamond
Oct 2014
#43