--- Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Speech From The Extremist Front:
I like to think of myself as something of a Lincoln expert. I'm certainly a Lincoln _fanatic_. Where did you find such a piece of junk? I'm really curious in particular as to the historians he found who said that all of his facts were correct. Just to pick one - for fun - he's quite wrong about the Emancipation Proclamation. It is true that it did not free _many_ slaves (immediately), but that's very different from it did not free any. There were some portions of the occupied South that were not exempt from the Proclamation - those slaves were freed immediately. Furthermore, and more important, as the victorious armies of the Union made their way into the South, they freed slaves as they went - something that they could not have done without the Proclamation. The other stuff is equally tendentious, of course. The idea that the Civil War wasn't about slavery is the product of a frankly racist school of historical thinking that few historians of the post-Civil Rights era would accept. The idea that it was about confiscatory taxation is, of course, absurd. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
