[Colonel Kangaroo]

one more time, "the declarations" are not/WERE NOT the official positions and/or policy of ANY state. (that is why virtually every traditional scholar DISMISSES them as the rantings of a few slave-owners.)

Of course they were the rantings of a few slave owners. But in old Dixieland, the rantings of a few slave owners were the law and too many Southern boys followed those rantings and walked into sacrifice for the selfishness of the plantation gang.

[stand watie]

what a RIDICULIOUS post! aren't you better educated than to believe that NONSENSE????

the slavers spoke for NOBODY but themselves = the 5-6% of southerners that owned slaves. (about the same percentage of northerners were SLAVERS!)

given the slavers proclivity to collaborate with the invaders, to protect their "right to trade in human flesh" (MANY received WRITTEN guarantees of "protecting their right to own humans, permanently" from the DY high command.), had our ancestors WON the war, they would have been NEXT on the list of ENEMIES of dixie freedom.

free dixie,sw