Politics aside, the hue and clamour of politicians aside, this is how people remember the liberation juggernaut. Really, was the Civil War for liberation or for the aggrandizement of the North?
I don’t know that Haywood talks about anyone’s aggrandizement. More a gradual process of understanding what a dirt poor ex-slave could become in half a lifetime after Emancipation; practical things. What burns in you to want to believe it was holy “liberation” or “aggrandizement of the North?”
Politics aside, the hue and clamour of politicians aside, this is how people remember the liberation juggernaut. Really, was the Civil War for liberation or for the aggrandizement of the North?
I don’t know that Haywood talks about anyone’s aggrandizement. More a gradual process of understanding what a dirt poor ex-slave could become in half a lifetime after Emancipation; practical things. What burns in you to want to believe it was holy “liberation” or “aggrandizement of the North?”