New Truth of the Civil War
This March, a new book on Abraham Lincoln was published in Japan.
The author, Mr. Yoshio Uchida, focused on a technology, electric communications using Morse codes.
Lincoln frequently communicated with generals and officers at the front of the Civil War, which contributed to keeping and boosting morale and whipping up war sentiment.
This fact had been long forgotten, partly intentionally, but the author got original texts Lincoln had sent to the front by cable.
As the Confederate Army aimed at having the Federal States lose morale in the prolonged war, Lincoln's efforts to boost the will to fight became a critical element for his victory.
Railroads (for mobilizing people and moving soldiers) and telegraphy (for gathering information and conveying leader's determination) played a key role in the Civil War.
Especially, if Lincoln had failed in appreciating potential of the long distance communications, the Federal States and their generals and soldiers, sick and tired of a long civil war, might have made a fatal concession eventually.
(I think Americans should have avoided the Civil War. President Lincoln should have found a better way, in my view. A war in the late 19th century was very different from the one President Lincoln must have envisaged initially, probably referring to Napoleonic Wars and the like.)
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In 1780, there were 500,000 slaves in the U.S.
(In 1808, the U.K. officially forbade slave trade.)
In 1820, there were 1.5 million slaves in the U.S.
In 1860, there were 4 million slaves in the U.S.
Between 1820 and 1860, the cotton production in the South increased tenfold!
You may still find new truth based on this (probably well-known) data as well as President Lincoln's telegrams, especially if you are an American (like Mr. Al Sharpton who recently got spotlighted in American media on various interesting occasions).
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The Greek Civilization was built on slavery (obtained through wars with different tribes as well as among their own).
But, Israelites seem not to have opted for slavery in establishing their civilization (though Abraham had one for a special reason which might not have pleased his God); Rather they were once victims of slavery in Egypt.
Besides, as you would find in reading Greek myths, they had been highly influenced by the Mesopotamian Civilization. What's more, the origin of Greek letters was cuneiform characters Sumerians, probably remote relatives of Abraham, had invented.
Simply put, European Americans who often identify their material value system with that of the Roman/Greek Civilization might not be so trustworthy as Israelite Americans at least in this issue.
If you elect an Israelite American President of the U.S., you might be able to move to a right direction to solve the racism.
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The issue is our future.
For the U.S. to continue to act as a leader in the world, American leaders should not be regarded as a racist behind the times, which was already against the great global-current in the late 19th century, when Japan reentered the international community and eventually abolished the samurai feudalism.
(Even if you contribute to solving a racial issue, you may not win the Nobel Peace Prize. But, you can accumulate wealth as well as the beautiful in Heaven by doing so.)
"LOVE DOES NOT KEEP A RECORD OF WRONGS"