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Old November 25th, 2012, 06:08 PM posted to soc.retirement,alt.activism.death-penalty,alt.politics.economics,alt.politics.liberalism,rec.travel.europe
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Default Black Confederates in the Civil War

On Nov 25, 8:51*am, mikeos wrote:
On 25/11/2012 10:38, chatnoir wrote:
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* The idea of black Confederates appeals to present-day neo-
* Confederates, who are eager to find ways to defend the principles of
* the Confederate States of America. They say the Civil War was about
* states rights, and they wish to minimize the role of slavery in a
* vanished and romantic antebellum South.

Sure it was about "states rights". The right to oppress a minority and
enslave them. Where's the contradiction?


of course its also unconstitutional.