Nobody would choose to be a transient farm-working cotton picker today either. That does not mean that it was all like "Grapes of Wrath", does it?
This is why no one can have a rational discussion of slavery, something that existed all through history in every continent and continues today in Africa and Muslim societies.
If you haven’t done that kind of work, you have no right to say “It wasn’t THAT bad.
See, no rational discussion is possible because of leftist-type emotionalism. This is how the left reacts on every single political issue that comes up.
We aren't allowed to say that not every slave was physically abused? We aren't allowed to say mention that some blacks owned slaves either?
Please explain to us the limits you desire on discussion, thought, knowledge and facts of history.
but why can't we even talk about something from history without having somebody screaming incoherently at us for it??
I am not screaming at all. It’s just really easy for some son of the south who’s life experience consists of working in an office telling us that it wasn’t that bad. And that is what most Freepers on these threads do.
Your Dad might have picked cotton, side by side. Have you? Did your Dad have a choice?
I know that no one is advocating slavery. I am saying there are plenty on here who are suggesting it wasn’t a bad existence.
I am arguing that based on my personal experience, working in fields using tools and techniques from that era, that hardly anyone would do that for free, and no one would suggest that lifestyle isn’t THAT bad.
I am well aware that slavery was legal. I understand blacks owned slaves. I understand that not every plantation was like the movies portray. I get all that. I understand blacks were considered sub human.
I am simply amused that anyone, now or then, would suggest that the land of the free was, indeed, free while people working in the manner I descibed did not have the choice to walk away. The point is so simple. All of the history or facts that are presented are really moot. Slavery removes Liberty. That is wrong.
I don’t intend to get into another civil war argument with people who are trying to justify this abomination. I simply wanted to express an opinion.
And, my argument is far from incoherent. It is simple and it’s based on natural laws. Your arguments support an immoral practice that is, and never has been moral.