To: SatinDoll
The Southern states tried to turn human beings into livestock property, ignoring that important statement about “all men are created equal”. You don't really believe that the Southern states invented the concept of chattel slavery, do you?
23 posted on
09/27/2010 1:51:22 PM PDT by
don-o
("At this point, Islam is just surging into a vacuum" - Mrs Don-o)
To: don-o
You don't really believe that the Southern states invented the concept of chattel slavery, do you? Of course not. They just insisted on maintaining it after most civilized nations had abandoned the system as barbaric.
The actual conflicts between the sections that led up to the War were based not on whether slavery would be prohibited in the states where it was practiced, but rather on southern insistence they be allowed to spread it into new areas.
To: don-o
‘You don’t really believe that the Southern states invented the concept of chattel slavery, do you?’
Of course not. However, they ‘perfected’ it.
60 posted on
09/27/2010 2:28:14 PM PDT by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
To: don-o
No, but they were insistent upon continuing it.
85 posted on
09/27/2010 2:59:05 PM PDT by
My hearts in London - Everett
(So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.)
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