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darkknight109 posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

but I'm assuming if they where treated like utter shit and being abused they would have taken their chances

Why would you assume this when there's entire books written on exactly how the slaves were treated?

Spoiler alert: they were treated like shit.

To pick one example out of millions, Robert E. Lee, when he caught two slaves that had attempted to escape, had them scourged until the flesh on their back was literally hanging off in tatters. Not content with that, he then had the wounds washed in brine to make them extra agonizing.

Just in case you didn't have enough reason to consider him a piece of shit in human form.

*Sighs* that's assuming every slave owner was exactly the same. News flash they weren't they are people and people are always different. Not excusing slavery in the slightest, its fucked up and wrong no doubt. But not every one of them beat the shit out of their slaves some of them even worked along side them.

I know plenty where treated like shit but go ahead and ignore what I was actually saying. The ones that where I doubt would have stuck around when freed but some did.

Also Lee was a union sympathizer. That's also glossed over he only joined the Confederacy because it would mean fighting family and friends.

Even as a southerner I agree for equal rights reasons the right side one just saying I bet had it been someone else say stone wall Jackson rather than him that fateful day there wouldn't have been a surrender. Lee wanted the war to end and he didn't care for fighting his home country. Just a easier pill to swallow than perhaps gunning down a friend or cousin etc.
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