Should’ve picked your own damned cotton, now look at what we have to deal with because of their greed.
When I was young I had the fortune of knowing my great grandparents who could recall stories of their parents and grandparents having lived through the Civil War/War of Northern Aggression/The Stupid War. As southerners, they believed that slavery was a great evil that no good could come from and that no matter how it ended it would end with a large population displaced from their original lands and no place to really call home. They felt that the generations before them screwed them over by keeping slavery alive. They were never rich enough to own a slave and believed slavery should never have started. But as we constantly point out, white men didn’t start it, a black man did and against all laws of the time. No one wanted slavery in the 1600’s but they got it against their convictions against slavery and through a court order.
So, yes, we should have worked the fields ourselves as we both denied ourselves an income and we have this huge population that even 150 years after slavery still refuses to assimilate into this country.
“Should’ve picked your own damned cotton, now look at what we have to deal with because of their greed.”
The North DEMANDED that cheap cotton! Maybe the North should have grown THEIR own! Just like today...the East coast imposes their will on the West, takes our land, makes our laws and then calls us names. Some crap never changes.