[drjimmy]

Lincoln, and pretty much the entire north said, “No, we’re stealing your property, and if you don’t like it, we’ll kill you.”

Yeah, those damn Yankees trying to steal our property. Why fiddledeedee, who would pick our cotton if we didn't have the people we owned to do that?

[dsc]

“who would pick our cotton if we didn’t have the people we owned to do that”

The property in question was not the slaves, but the profits from the sale of cotton, tobacco, and other goods.

But then, you knew that, didn’t you?