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I am also very interested in the people who lived in that time, in the ground level experience of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Moving toward that discussion, let us consider the following resolved:
1.) Slavery was an evil oppressive institution.
2.) African-Americans, as a people, did not like being slaves, (I hate having to say that) and resisted slavery in various ways throughout the period of their enslavement.
3.) The unifying cause of the Confederacy was slavery.
4.) Primary documents are useful, but like all sources, limited. They are helpful and useful, but not God's word.
These points--in this space--are officially beyond the realm of debate. We can come back and tease them out. We can examine how they proceed in interesting directions. But we don't need to repeatedly reaffirm them points. In our discussions--as we conversate forward--they are the baseline. They are the given.
--- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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- June 28, 2010 --These Are Our Overstated Years
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