[Larry Lucido]

Here, I'll try to explain it. You see, slavery in the south was more benign that folks realize, and would have gone away within a generation or two or three, Civil War or not. Folks just needed to be more patient.

On the other hand, if the city requires a permit to add a wing to your house, or if a cop writes you a seatbelt ticket, or if the city inspector writes you a citation for the junk car in your front yard, well, those are all outrages tantamount to slavery, and cause to take up arms to overthrow the government now if not yesterday.

Does that make it clearer?

[cyborg]

LOL

[Nowhere Man]

Here, I'll try to explain it. You see, slavery in the south was more benign that folks realize, and would have gone away within a generation or two or three, Civil War or not. Folks just needed to be more patient.

I come from the school that slavery's days were numbered, I think it would have went away by 1890 or 1900 when the electric motor and the internal combustion engine technologies came online.