Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: southernsunshine
Tater, you know as well as I do that the Northern states didn't end it for humanitarian reasons. They sold the slaves South instead of freeing them.

We're talking about the claim that the North forced slavery on the South. If it was involuntarily forced down their throats then why didn't the South say 'enough' and end it? They had that right. Why didn't they?

110 posted on 04/11/2011 6:31:13 PM PDT by K-Stater
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 101 | View Replies ]


To: K-Stater; phi11yguy19
We're talking about the claim that the North forced slavery on the South. If it was involuntarily forced down their throats then why didn't the South say 'enough' and end it? They had that right. Why didn't they?

My response was to your post #95: Then why didn't the Southern states just end it, as the Northern states did? What was stopping them?

I correctly pointed out that the Northern states didn't end the practice for humanitarian reasons.

Now Tater, you're gonna end up tripping over another question you asked PA if ya ain't careful here. You know, the one about,"... how long would it take before the Southern states didn't feel the need to rebel to defend their peculiar institution in the face of a law to end it?

You know as well as I do that the Northern states which ended slavery phased it out over a period of years and sold their slaves to the South. Was the South supposed to sell them back to the North after, oh, say, a 10-20 year phase like those Northern states used?

You also know that if the Southern states were so determined to keep their slaves, all they had to do was remain in the Union.

119 posted on 04/11/2011 7:18:31 PM PDT by southernsunshine
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 110 | View Replies ]

To: K-Stater

You were banned, go away.


126 posted on 04/11/2011 7:52:59 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 110 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson