:spinnenrad: Springoat :spinnenrad: on Nostr: > Suddenly everyone forgets that Union soldiers during reconstruction had a huge ...
> Suddenly everyone forgets that Union soldiers during reconstruction had a huge fraternization problem and were even joining White Leagues because they came to the conclusion of, "Wow these niggers really are a problem."
This is only surprising if you buy the neohistory story of the war being about freeing the slaves. I'm pretty sure anyone at the time knew it was about preventing secession.
I suspect actual opinions were similar to the Ukraine conflict, one side sees it as a democratic movement to exit a tyrannical hegemony and pursue their own course. The other side sees it as an underhand operation by outside forces to snap off a piece of their territory and add it to another empire.
Keeping in mind that the southern members of the 13 colonies were the closes to the UK, both economically and politically, and that it had taken them a long time during the revolution to actually join the war, it might have seemed like it was royalists trying to partially reverse the revolution.
This is only surprising if you buy the neohistory story of the war being about freeing the slaves. I'm pretty sure anyone at the time knew it was about preventing secession.
I suspect actual opinions were similar to the Ukraine conflict, one side sees it as a democratic movement to exit a tyrannical hegemony and pursue their own course. The other side sees it as an underhand operation by outside forces to snap off a piece of their territory and add it to another empire.
Keeping in mind that the southern members of the 13 colonies were the closes to the UK, both economically and politically, and that it had taken them a long time during the revolution to actually join the war, it might have seemed like it was royalists trying to partially reverse the revolution.