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Alex Cruikshanks@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social |
Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.
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Glenn Muir
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Hell, the fact that there was only ONE such kind of trial after the war (involving the commandant Henry Wirz of Andersonville Prison in Georgia for his horrific conditions and leadership there - seriously, look them up) and not many folks TO THIS DAY know of it, just compounds on our great failures.
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Cosmik Slop
@brightanimal.bsky.social
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The USA had a chance that it would never have again, and it was left to slip away like grains of sand through a fist
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Denise DeGrazia
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That's because Lincoln was dead and Andrew Johnson (a Southerner) was not partial to the idea.
Jefferson Davis escaped the rope.
Hope this link helps explain the FU of the ages:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tria...
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Three👁️ Eyed👁️ Devil👁️
@anarcish.bsky.social
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Instead of executing traitors and saving America Lincoln instead carried out the largest mass execution in American history by hanging native Americans for protecting land that even according to America was legally theirs.
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CineWolf is living deliciously
@cinewolf.bsky.social
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Exactly: Everyone who hasn't read #DemocracyInChains by Nancy McLean or #DarkMoney by Jane Mayer should.
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Anastacya
@anastacya.bsky.social
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Stringing Lee up like Mussolini would've been one hell of a message.
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Adam Kotsko
@adamkotsko.bsky.social
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I've seen estimates that as few as 5000 executions would have been enough to "reboot" Southern society and give the freed slaves a fighting chance.
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Laura
@lauradlt.bsky.social
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There might have been if not for the assassination of Lincoln and Johnson’s dismantling Lincoln’s plans for reconstruction.
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Bill Jank
@billjank.bsky.social
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Repeat this every day and twice on Sundays from every Pulpit in the Republic.
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Natural Hierarchies Unenjoyer
@flintironstag.bsky.social
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We need reconstruction 2
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Yes
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Death will not release you!𓅽
@7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social
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💯%
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Justin Stanley
@jdst258.bsky.social
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This will never be less than 100% accurate
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Raelee May Carpenter, Capitalism's Folk Devil
@raeleemaycarpenter.bsky.social
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And instead we gave the slaveholders compensation for the slaves.
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Xelkelvos
@xelkelvos.bsky.social
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that part about seizing land and giving it to former slaves did happen! that land was taken back unfortunately...
revealnews.org/podcast/40-a...
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First Wordle Problems
@fwordleproblems.bsky.social
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The Confederate states should not have been readmitted to the union. They should have ceased to exist. They forfeited their sovereignty by rebelling. The territory should have devolved to the federal government and been administered by it indefinitely.
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Velvet Hydrangea
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After the American Revolution, my Loyalist ancestors' lands (where they had lived since they helped found the towns) were seized and they were deported to Canada. There absolutely was precedent to seize assets in 1866. It's an American tragedy that they didn't.
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Jonathan
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Lee was responsible for more dead Americans than GEORGE THE THIRD, he should have been swinging in a noose in front of the senate building
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Orion Kidder
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100%. You can't have truth and reconciliation if you don't acknowledge the truth or reconcile the wrongs that were committed. They just swept that shit under the rug.
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LOWρUF🥥
@lowrhoufo.bsky.social
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And just like Nuremberg, they should have hired a hangman with a personal tort to pretend to be incompetent
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Shad Murasaki
@shadumura.bsky.social
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Imagine a US where confederate peeps got the hague treatment and the US didn't save but instead went after the heads of the SS, dragging them to the hague as well. Sigh.
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The Fig Economy
@figgityfigs.bsky.social
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Tired: The Union won the civil war Wired: The civil war didn’t stop, it shifted to a different phase Inspired: the Confederacy won the civil war, ultimately
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@dmlundeen.bsky.social
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Summary executions of at least a few, like Forrest.
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Dan Davis
@bindlestaff.bsky.social
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Imagine seriously asserting “but we need these people if we are to reunite a divided nation.”
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To wit or not to wit?
@towit12.bsky.social
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David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social
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Charles Sumner: "I never cease to regret that Jeff. Davis was not shot at the time of his capture."
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Kai
@kaikronfield.bsky.social
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There should have been similar for the co-conspiratorial MOC who aided and abetted the coup attempt on J6. (but all their assets should be distributed to abortion funds, just to piss them off)
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Noamar Garciachomsky
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There really isn't one current American problem that wouldn't have been made better by more Confederates/slaveowners being executed at the end of the Civil War. No way Tom Cotton has his current job.
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Sam W
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The fact that there wasn't a big public trial like this allows room (however slim) for ignorant morons to hold them up as heroes. It's total nonsense, but you're right. There should have been no ambiguity in how the treason and insurrection was dealt with after the war.
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maraleia
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The problem is Lincoln made Andrew Johnson is VP which was his worst mistake.
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Dr. M.A. Davis
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a big problem was that the socially radical party was the economically conservative party, and vice-versa.
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