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why did EVERY PLACE "cling to it so obstinately"???

the answer as i said earlier was ONE thing = PROFIT.

PROFIT is the reason that the "oh, so wunnnerful, wunnerful" arrogant, sanctimonious, SELF-righteous, ELITIST DAMNyankees (who were "up to their eyes" IN the slave trade) SOLD their slaves, when slavery became UNPROFITABLE, rather than freeing them.)

btw, many of the so-called "abolitionists" were IN "the flesh trade" at the SAME time as they were decrying the trade as DIShonorable.(this is called, in case you didn't know, being a HYPOCRYTE!)

face it, quadrant, you have NO case & evidently little understanding of the actual sitiation.

btw, do you have a "reading comprehension problem"??? in #559 (the post you responded to in your post #564) i said that slavery would have died out within a generation at WORST & probably within 5-10 years.

free dixie,sw

For someone who lives in a commercial republic, you have a great disdain for money. I've known quite a few people who have such a disdain but generally they are socialists who want money but have no idea how to earn it. I’ve never claimed to be a great student of history, but I am of human nature. Frequently, I detect in black people, buried behind jocularity, an animosity and resentment that erupts from time to time, generally under stress. I suspect this animosity comes from a grievance against the world, the country, society, history, whatever, although I have no proof of my suspicion. Occasionally, I detect that same animosity among white Southerners. Such feelings were particularly prevalent among Southerners of my Mother’s generation; after all, her grandfather lived through Reconstruction and she learned of it from him. What is surprising is that this animosity still exists. One emotion that is common among some blacks and some white Southerners is a puerile belief in the purity of their motives and a desire to justify themselves to everyone with whom they converse.

I have no idea how long slavery would have lasted, if the American War of Secession had been averted. From time to time, I amuse myself by imagining scenarios that might lead individual Southern states to decide on emancipation. Generally, each scenario leads to a different conclusion. When I realize the futility of my actions, I comfort myself with the realization that no one knows how slavery would have lasted. This I do know: never was any group of people more badly served than were my ancestors (and all Southerners) by their elected representatives during the decade before 1860.