Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
by marcusverus on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:48AM
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Black folks couldn't vote in the North in 1860, either. In fact, when Lincoln started the war by calling up 50,000 volunteers to "put down the rebellion", there were more slave states still in the Union (DC, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware) than there were in the Confederacy! Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee seceded only after they realized that Lincoln intended to wage war on the South.
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Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
by greedo on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @01:58PM
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This is just more "Lost Cause" tripe. If you think the Civil War was about "states rights" etc etc, read the Confederate Constitution.
“In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.”
Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
by marcusverus on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:07AM
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> If you think the Civil War was about "states rights" etc etc, read the Confederate Constitution.
You seem confused. Nobody said that.
Re:Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @11:03AM
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> Black folks couldn't vote in the North in 1860, either.
That’s overgeneralized. They couldn’t vote everywhere in the North, and in some of the states where they (and sometimes other nonwhite citizens) could they had different terms than whites (e.g., New York imposed a property requirement on non-Whites for voting that wasn’t imposed on Whites.)