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.
as bad as commonly depicted, if you want to stay in context.
Dad was a child, he did what he was told.
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.
In context, the US was the most free country on Earth at the time, and slavery was not unique to the US. Slavery continued elsewhere and still continues to this day.
No one is trying to justify it. Discussing it is not justifying it.
Just because someone says that slaves weren't wearing loincloth in the field all day long while getting savagely whipped (conducive to hard work I am sure, not) as some movies and stuff would have us believe does not mean they condone or "justify" it.