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Explanation: In the later stages of the US Civil War, one leader of the anti-slavery North, General Sherman, opted for a daring campaign into the pro-slavery South’s heartlands, wherein he would destroy and, most famously, burn anything he deemed of use to the Confederate war effort, including civilian infrastructure like cotton mills and railroads. He notably promised to “make Georgia [a Southern US state] howl” to bring home the message that the Southern slavers could no longer regard the war as a distant thing, but as a very real evil that they had brought upon their own homes, not just the homes of poor Appalachians and Midwesterners in the border states.

Sherman ain’t sorry for burning nothing that’s from Georgia, don’t believe him, chef!

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sober_monk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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Anecdote time: My mom grew up in the Atlanta suburbs in the 50s and 60s, and while she converted to Mormonism (I got better!) for my dad, she was very much a white woman of her place and time. Growing up, she made it clear that she knew of exactly three “sons of perdition,” a biblical term the LDS used to describe “those who were permitted to be born to this world with physical bodies but then served Satan and turned utterly against God [and who] will not be redeemed from the second (spiritual) death and cannot dwell in a kingdom of glory.”

They were Adolph Hitler (fair enough), Napoleon Bonaparte (I’m guessing a personal bugaboo of whatever armchair historian and armchair-ier theologian introduced her to this concept, but okay he started a lot of very large wars), and William Tecumseh Sherman.

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