Posted on 06/09/2009 8:47:35 AM PDT by Davy Buck
My oh my, what would the critics, the Civil War publications, publishers, and bloggers do if it weren't for the bad boys of the Confederacy and those who study them and also those who wish to honor their ancestors who fought for the Confederacy?
(Excerpt) Read more at oldvirginiablog.blogspot.com ...
Actually Stand Slavery was never legal to begin with even in the south, since it was never defined by law.
The way the south got around it was by claiming that slaves were in fact indentured servants even though their “contracts” were essential permanent conditions.
The practice of indentured servitude continues to this day although it has been relaxed some what by our laws, daily hundreds of Young Americans enter into a indentured servitude contract that forces them to be servants for a minimum of eight years without blinking an eye.
This type of indentured servitude has even been forced upon our citizen haphazardly and with the threat of imprisonment throughout our history, and yet many people ignore what it is.
For the record book the last president to endure this type of Indentured servitude was George W. Bush.
face it, "bubba", NOBODY here is DUMB enough to believe ANYTHING that you post, as your reputation is that of a shame-LESS, KNOWING, liar.
also, WHO did you claim to "once have been" before you were BANNED from FR and then (after you figured out that you were about to be banned AGAIN) said that you had LIED to me about having been "somebody else"???
free dixie,sw
It was only a couple of months ago that you described your academic career this way: "a church-related boarding school, then Tulane, UT/Austin & Auburn Univ. (as well as numerous grad school courses, offered overseas, by several universities, when i was in the Army)." link
Where does Ouachita Baptist and the oft-quoted Prof. Bob C. Riley fall into the story?
the FACTS are that you are NOT believed on ANY subject.
btw, where did you go to school??? what did you study, if anything???
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THE TRUTH is that it was MANY TENS of THOUSANDS of northerners, who were INVESTED IN slavery from the beginning to the end either by OWNING slaves themselves or OWNING slaves through another "party". = they were nothing more or less than HYPOCRITES.
DAMNyankee ELITISTS have forever been HYPOCRITES;it is their NATURE.
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Do you have any source for this claim?
Furthermore, do you have any support for your claim that 6% (that's 1.3 million) Northerners owned slaves?
Your posts. Your words. Did you go to Tulane twice?
The holier than thou BS presented by the Yankee coven has to stop.
Truth hurt?
otoh, i don't "do homework". (i learned better than that years ago, when on this forum people asked me for sources for the things that i posted. when i DID provide those prime sources, they then said: "i don't believe them; who else agrees?". when OTHER sources said the same thing, then the "homework assigners: said, : i don't care what you say or who you quote, i don't believe it.(this i called WILFUL IGNORANCE of the FACTS!) = requests like you made are (at least 90% of the time) what is known as "a dodge" to keep from admitting the truth about the ELITISTS/HYPOCRITES of DAMNyankeeland.
Professor T. Harry Williams of LSU said that: if you counted up every person north & south who either directly or INDIRECTLY (by buying "stock" in firms that they KNEW were "in the flesh trade") owned slaves, that the percentage was about the SAME in both regions.= about 5-6%. (i'll take him as a source anytime.)
face it, Blackacre, you've been force-fed a "pack of LIES" by LIARS, who knew the truth.
i KNOW that it would be "comfortable" for you to believe that the war was "about" or even "mostly about" slavery, as that pose relieves the DAMNyankees of some part of the responsibility for the WAR CRIMES that they committed against CSA prisoners of war & innocent/unarmed civilians AND for persecuting an UNJUST war against the new dixie republic. (unfortunately, for you & every other person, that thesis is simply FALSE.)
the UN-varnished TRUTH is that the DAMNyankees were NOT "as pure as the new driven snow" & neither were the CSA adherents "just plain wrong",as the DAMNyankee lunatics/BIGOTS routinely claim. things are RARELY as simple as the REVISIONIST/SOCIALIST lunatics of academia claim that they are.
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You made a very specific claim regarding tens of thousands of people in the North investing in slaving ventures and 1.3 million people in the North owning slaves. The onus is on you to provide proof, not hide behind some nonsense about research fees.
requests like you made are (at least 90% of the time) what is known as "a dodge" to keep from admitting the truth about the ELITISTS/HYPOCRITES of DAMNyankeeland.
You made a very specific factual claim. If you're not willing to back it up with evidence, I can't be expected to take it at face value.
Professor T. Harry Williams of LSU said that: if you counted up every person north & south who either directly or INDIRECTLY (by buying "stock" in firms that they KNEW were "in the flesh trade") owned slaves, that the percentage was about the SAME in both regions.= about 5-6%. (i'll take him as a source anytime.)
Did he claim this in a book? an article? where? I'd be surprised if 5% of people in 1860 even owned stock, never mind stock in companies involved in slavery.
i KNOW that it would be "comfortable" for you to believe that the war was "about" or even "mostly about" slavery
For the South, preserving slavery was the number one reason behind the war. For the North, it was preserving the Union. Other than slavery, what reason did the South have to fight?
the UN-varnished TRUTH is that the DAMNyankees were NOT "as pure as the new driven snow
Of course they weren't. They were human after all. The treatment of some Confederate POW's was a disgrace.
& neither were the CSA adherents "just plain wrong"
Of course not. But they were the ones fighting to keep millions of people in chains. Whatever faults the North had were overshadowed by several factors of magnitude due to this fact.
Too bad that you have to resort to sarcasm. But that is the case when you are wrong.
tell us:
1. do you have one or more BA/BS degrees,
2. were you ever a grad student??
3. if you were, at what school & in what discipline??
and
4. do you hold any academic degree(s) above the Bachelor's???
inasmuch as you are "so curious" about other people's academic background, it only seems fair that you reveal yours completely.
free dixie,sw
And I will bet that you know the difference between the way he handled the initiation of that war and the methods that Lincoln used.
Right?
trust me on this, i'm NOT going to go spend a great deal of time PROVING to you (or anyone else) something that you are able to research for yourself (& for free), only for you to deny the truth of the documents. (as i said, i was FOOLISH enough to go to the trouble a FEW times. in NONE of the cases did the "nonbelievers" agree with the FACTS, after all that effort. it is my long experience, that most people by age 25 are "set in" their core beliefs & will NOT change them regardless of facts presented.)
free dixie,sw
furthermore,he seems to think that being a PROPAGANDIST for the worst excesses of the DAMNyankees relieves him of the necessity of TRUTH-telling, THOUGHT & "fair play" in dealing with people that don't share his PREJUDICES/odd notions.
trying to "educate" N-S on ANY issue is like trying to teach a hog to sing opera. = it irritates you & bores the pig.
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