![]() ![]() Ask Hugh if he has been circumcised.Ĭhristian quotes what the Old Virginians said against slavery. He says slavery was ‘a patriarchal’ institution – So were polygamy & circumcision. According to Christian the Virginia people were the abolitionists & the Northern people were pro-slavery. ![]() I wrote you about my disgust at reading the Reunion speeches: It has since been increased by reading Christian’s report. In a letter five years later to another friend, Sam Chapman, he wrote, Mosby, whose family had owned slaves, was talking about an increasing trend among Confederate veterans and former Confederate politicians to whitewash the reasons for the war. Then what was the cause? I always thought that the South fought about the thing that it quarreled with the North about. In retrospect, slavery seems such a monstrous thing that some are now trying to prove that slavery was not the Cause of the War. In June of 1902, former Confederate cavalry raider John Singleton Mosby wrote to his friend Judge Reuben Page about the war that had given him his fame, bemoaning the fact that the causes of that war were already being lost in the public’s consciousness. ![]()
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