Reply To: Fly the flag of the Confederate States of America?

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I think black people see the Civil War as The War of Slave Liberation, but it was a lot more complicated than that. Almost none of the Confederate infantrymen were slave plantation owners or even owners of a single slave. If they had two functioning brain cells, they might have realized that every slave sent out into the field represented a job that poor white guy couldn’t have. Slavery made the slaveholders rich and the poor whites poor. Thus, one has to assume that most of the Confederate soldiers were NOT fighting to ensure the slave system but had other reasons.