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To: philman_36

After over one hundred and fifty years I’d hate to think. And if the South had won the war would it have freed the slaves?


20 posted on 09/02/2018 10:34:30 AM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: jmacusa

Not for a long time. As long as cash crop agriculture was profitable, slavery would have continued to exist in the Confederacy. It would have taken an Amendment to the Confederate Constitution to allow its member states to outlaw the institution.


24 posted on 09/02/2018 2:30:04 PM PDT by Bull Snipe (")
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To: jmacusa
And if the South had won the war would it have freed the slaves?

Immediately at the end of the war? No, probably not.
Years after the war? Yes, probably so.
They would have been emancipated, IMO.
Since many slaves were field hands then mechanized farm equipment
would eventually make them too expensive to own/maintain.
Would you prefer a tractor or a mule?
Sorry if that sounds crass, but they were an asset/property at that time.

Does it offend you that someone has a different view than you of impossible things?

25 posted on 09/02/2018 3:28:07 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: jmacusa
Since you have a vision of what the South would be what is your vision of what the North would be?

After over one hundred and fifty years I’d hate to think.

You can't articulate your Northern States' post war vision, but you have no problem whatsoever pushing the Southern States' Slavery meme.

Telling.

34 posted on 09/03/2018 4:39:50 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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