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To: central_va

If the folks in the South would have picked their own damn cotton we would be far better off today...


8 posted on 06/03/2020 4:22:01 AM PDT by montanajoe
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To: montanajoe

I am starting to have some profound understanding of why segregation was ever so popular.....


10 posted on 06/03/2020 4:24:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: montanajoe
If the folks in the South would have picked their own damn cotton we would be far better off today...

The last slaves were freed in the North. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed Southern slaves, and that was after the South had already left congress. But yes, importing blacks was the worst decision ever made.
15 posted on 06/03/2020 4:35:58 AM PDT by golux (In Memory of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom)
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