[cowboyway]

There is the road. Get on it by sundown!" (this end of slavery would have been "UGLY"!)

The yankee method for ending slavery was far worse. He told the slave to go free and yanked the welcome mat when the ex-slaves tried to enter the yankee domicile.

[stand watie]

understood. the DYs FREQUENTLY "preyed upon" the slaves, which is "interesting" as SUPPOSEDLY they were "liberating them". what MANY Blacks were "liberated" from was being ALIVE!

of course it was NOT the real-life "Scarlett O'Haras", who were RAPED, tortured,robbed,assaulted & MURDERED by the criminals in blue. rather it was "persons of colour", religious minorities & the "poorest of the poor" whites who were most frequently victimized & suffered MOST.

nonetheless, had our southron ancestors WON their war for FREEDOM, the "end of the peculiar institution" would (i believe) been UGLY, as the freedmen would have found themselves out of the road with NOTHING but the clothes they were wearing, when "tossed off" the plantations/farms. (as you know, our family was as "distant" socially/academically/financially from the "big house", as the MOON was. i have no sympathy for anybody who was in the "flesh trade" either. NONE!)

free dixie,sw