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"The fact is that the Civil War didn’t represent a failure of 19th-century Americans, but that the..."
“The fact is that the Civil War didn’t represent a failure of 19th-century Americans, but that the American slave society—which was itself war—represented a failure of humanity. That failure was the price America paid for its conception. The bill came due in 1860.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/the-unromantic-slaughter-of-the-civil-war/277051/"><strong>Ta-Nehisi Coates</strong></a> (via <a href="http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog">theatlantic</a>)</em>
"The fact is that the Civil War didn’t represent a failure of 19th-century Americans, but that the..."
“The fact is that the Civil War didn’t represent a failure of 19th-century Americans, but that the American slave society—which was itself war—represented a failure of humanity. That failure was the price America paid for its conception. The bill came due in 1860.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/the-unromantic-slaughter-of-the-civil-war/277051/"><strong>Ta-Nehisi Coates</strong></a> (via <a href="http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog">theatlantic</a>)</em>
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