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The tendency to underrate the understanding of men who lived in the past is often exaggerated.

Especially by academic writers...




Okay Mac, … You know me pretty well. I’m obviously not an academic writer.

If you tell me “those suckers are comin’ to get us.”, I’ll jump in to defend us.

But if you said “those suckers are comin’ to get us because we own slaves”, I'd say “What slaves?”

I just think the Confederate soldiers were duped by their leaders.

It happens to us all the time!