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To: SoothingDave

Your thesis boils down to this: Yankees hate black people cause they didn’t share a culture with them.

Southerners liked black people so much they thought everyone should own one.

Please explain the NE idea that the west should be a preserve for the white man only? (See Horace Greeley). As for southerners owning black men, one third of the black population in the south were freemen. Note, the Confederacy did in fact have black troops in their ranks. When will you understand that whites and blacks grew up together in the South? It was kind of hard to have a ghettoized farm. It is because of this that a single culture emerged. This never happened in the North. Read Lincolns defense of the no black rules in Illinois and tell me that yankees were fighting for equal rights. That is merely a revisionist fairy tale.


160 posted on 04/19/2010 11:16:16 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: equalitybeforethelaw
Please explain the NE idea that the west should be a preserve for the white man only?

I don't have to defend anything cause I'm not claiming anything about racial attitudes of the north in the 1860s.

As for southerners owning black men, one third of the black population in the south were freemen.

Woo hoo! Only 67% slaves. What a great thing to brag about.

Read some history. There were years of struggle about whether slavery would spread into the new territories or be limited to where it already was.

After Lincoln was elected, the South got afraid that they might have to do their own work or pay employees, so they left the union.

When will you understand that whites and blacks grew up together in the South?

Yes, no greater love has a man than that he has for his captor.

165 posted on 04/19/2010 11:22:07 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: equalitybeforethelaw
As for southerners owning black men, one third of the black population in the south were freemen.

That is absolutely false, as any look at the 1860 census would show. According to that, there were 132,400 free black men and woman of all ages in the 11 state confederacy. There were 3,521,000 slaves. Fewer than one in 25 blacks in the confederacy were free. not one in three. Nationwide it was about 1 in 9 was free.

I honestly cannot fathom how you people can possibly believe the nonsense you post.

173 posted on 04/19/2010 11:38:48 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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