[Ethyl]

"Many Northerners would add the caveat that the husband forces the wife to stay in the house so he can keep her from abusing the kids, which she had been doing contunuously. Buying and selling them, even... ;)"

A better analogy in this particular case would be that the husband's primary motive in forcing his wife back was to retain control over her paycheck.


Well said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WhiskeyPapa]

A better analogy in this particular case would be that the husband's primary motive in forcing his wife back was to retain control over her paycheck.

In point of fact, southerners were a drag on progress, a bad one.

Southerners opposed the Homestead Act. They hated free labor. They opposed the college land grant act. They opposed the transcontinental railroad.

The nation's progress leapt ahead once their influence was muted.

Walt