[ought-six]

"I believe slavery would have ended on its own, either that or if people had been left alone and not be meddled with by carpetbagger libs from the North things would have advanced faster. Oh well...but that's just my opinion." The only people in America who believed slavery wouldn't end on its own were in the North. Ah, the "tolerant" North, where bands of rampaging whites set upon blacks and killed them DURING THE CIVIL WAR! Yeah, the Civil War was fought to free the slaves, alright .

[cyborg]

yep gangs of new york style... Only person I ever read that made impartial observations of this situation is Tocqueville.

[Heyworth]

Ah, the "tolerant" North, where bands of rampaging whites set upon blacks and killed them DURING THE CIVIL WAR! Yeah, the Civil War was fought to free the slaves, alright .

Ah, the South, where bands of rampaging whites set upon blacks and killed them when they tried to assert their rights as citizens FOR ANOTHER HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR! (See also: The New Orleans Massacre, Klan, Lynching, etc.) Yeah, Seccession had nothing at all to do with preserving slaveholders' wealth and privileges, alright.