Why were freed slaves or those who escaped the Land of the Whip and the Lash to the North able to be ready for freedom but not Blacks in the South?
Was it because the Blacks of the South were forbidden education by LAW? Because they were forbidden to learn to read and write by LAW? Was it because of the systematic abuse of the Slave by LAW?
Obviously you know NOTHING of the reality of the REAL role of the slave in that economy or you would have to admit that MOST of the skilled and/or mechanical jobs in the South were performed by slaves not by the ridiculous ruling class which owned them. Mostly helpless parasites. The slaves were the Labor class producing the wealth of the South but are not capable of living in freedom? Utterly ridiculous.
Those without survival skills were the decrepit and degenerate ruling class of the South.
Why Mammy went to the city with Scarlett and don’t forget Big Sam left Tara too. Of course, you cannot understand that the system under discussion was evil not all the people trapped in it. Many were stupid and immoral but not all however it is difficult to remain pure when in a cesspool.
Oh I get it. My ancestors in Roanoke, who owned no slaves, just layed around and drank mint julips not "producing wealth".
Them whitey's don't work do's they...
Whoa now! In the interest of fairness, if your going to substitute "Land of the Whip and the Lash" for 'The South', then you should replace "the North" with something comparable, such as 'the Land of The Mutilated Immigrant Child Laborer' or 'the Land of The Bayonet-spitted Native Infant'.