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The Civil War Isn't Tragic Ta-Nehisi Coates Dec 8 2012, 4:30 PM ET Tweet More Email Print Some words from Private Thomas Strother of the USCT, writing in the Christian Recorder, the 19th century paper published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church: To suppose that slavery, the accursed thing, could be abolished peacefully and laid aside innocently, after having plundered cradles, separated husbands and wives, parents and children; and after having starved to death, worked to death, whipped to death, run to death,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], burned to death, lied to death,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], kicked and cuffed to death, and grieved to death; and, worst of all, after having made prostitutes of a majority of the best women of a whole nation of people...would be the greatest ignorance under the sun.This follows on a long series posts I've been doing (they are collected here) and an essay I pulled together last year.I came across this quote watching the rather amazing Death and the Civil War, which is chock-filled with the sense of the war as tragic

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