the_dunk_tank
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I like the generals who DIDN'T own slaves (okay, U.S. Grant owned a slave, but he was his father-in-laws [ew] and he freed the guy and a few million more later)
Grant was a careless fool who would go on to facilitate the Gilded Age. You don't need to give him a slave pass, and in fact you should not.
he was the Carter of his day, but at least he did something good. The Republicans just tapped him for president cuz he was a war hero, the Gilded Age wasnt caused by Grant. I'd rather credit him for preventing chattel slavery (instead of wage slavery) being the basis for the Gilded Age
I'm not saying he caused the Gilded Age, but rather like the absurd rate of Union deaths in the Civil War, his negligence allowed things to be much worse than they could have otherwise been, even if it would have happened without him.
counter factuals and what not, Grant also reoccupied the South after the Johnson administration just handed it to the literal KKK. He's a land of contrasts
Fair enough