WV was accepted into the Union only *after *it put a gradual-abolition clause in its new constitution.
The film showed the *House *vote, and the second one at that. The Senate, dominated by Northern Republicans after the Southerners resigned as their states seceded, had already passed it.
The only thing more insipid than the term “butthurt” is middle-aged men using it in a desperate struggle to sound “cool” that only ends up emulating the biggest losers on the Internet.
Little tip: every time the word “insipid” is used on this board, most people think of you.
No, Comic Book Guy has a point. I just wish he’d used more sneer quotes to really “drive it home.”
True, but it’s vote on the 13th amendment made the gradual more immediate. But, as I said, slavery in western VA was next to nothing. It would almost be like getting Maine to outlaw Orange trees.
Thanks! I knew the different regions had different cultures.
Wait, no one in Connecticut raised a stink about this before the congressman did? If the movie depicted Texas voting for the 13th amendment, we’d have burned down the State Capitol by now.
…in Connecticut.
I wonder if this’ll become some kind of cultural thing? Like “everyone knows” Connecticut was pro-slavery in the Civil War (despite the fact that it makes little sense because of its geographic location) because a movie said so, only people will forget it’s from a movie and assume it’s historical fact?
If so, I can understand the congressman’s ire.
Left on the cutting-room floor was the Housatonic’s crewmen grabbing the Enigma machine from the Hunley before sinking it with cannon fire.
Well it was for dramataic reasons and was based on a mistake with regard to the order of voting. However they knew that it was wrong before the movie was shot and persisted with the error even though:
from The Oscar for Best Fabrication in the New York Times.
…in Connecticut!
It really does…eh, well…not always.