Posted on 03/22/2010 4:05:55 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
By late in the 18th century slavery had become a nefarious institution in America, even in the South. As the gin dramatically increased cotton production the need for labor increased. Because of the huge numbers of immigrants labor was cheap enough for farmers to pay field hands. Sharecropping and small independent farming expanded alongside large tract plantations. As the economy expanded labor - free, indentured and slave - expanded. Arguments are made on both sides of the issue.
My concern is simply to point out that the same kind of slander used to scourge the South during the Civil War continues to be used today by liberals who make outrageous claims against citizens committed to the Constitution.
It’s not “slander” to say that the South’s economy was predicated on the enslavement of human beings, and that Southerners were willing to fight to keep it that way. It’s simply historical fact. Even the threat that their “right” to enslave a certain class of persons might be impinged upon even a little was considered a cause for war.
Not if the first amendment allows States to leave the Union with a simple majority vote in the State wishing to leave.
That you cannot acknowledge the hostility of your pperspective is precisely the condition that brought the North and South into irreconcilable conflict. Nor do those on the left acknowledge their slanderous hostility toward the Tea Party.
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