Since you are a history major, I am sure you are aware
Posted on: April 11, 2021 at 17:17:20 CT
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that the prevailing morality of an era is often rationalized when there are economic issues at stake. By 1860, most of the world had long abandoned slavery (all of the western world had) and the south still was able to rationalize slavery as a "peculiar" but necessary institution they were willing to go to war to maintain. They absolutely should be judged harshly for this and those that lived between 1860 and today that engaged in Jim Crow legislation and other forms of racial hatred and tyranny should be judged the same. I understand your point and would agree to some extent but the folks that engaged in lynching and other types of racial intimidation (getting back to the museum topic) post civil war knew what they were doing and they knew it was wrong.
Edited by KC rules at 17:23:21 on 04/11/21