[Ditto]

The South could have granted immediate freedom to half of its slave population...

LOL. And just who would have harvested all the cotton so the mint julep sipping aristocrats could live like European royalty while abusing logic and the Constitution with self serving propaganda about their right to treat other humans like cattle?

And who would have cooked for Miss Scarlet?

War of Northern aggression my ass. Who fired the first shots?

[stainlessbanner]

You'll have to do better than History by Hollywood, partner. Scarlett & Rhett were just entertainment, they don't represent the average Southron in 1860.

[smolensk]

And just who would have harvested all the cotton so the mint julep sipping aristocrats could live like European royalty while abusing logic and the Constitution with self serving propaganda about their right to treat other humans like cattle?

Ditto, you talk like someone who just finished reading about the Civil War in a high school history book and are so 'pumped up' with enthusiasm and newly discovered facts that you had to chime in or 'bust a gut'.

So, please tell me o wise one, what exactly was it that NORTHERNERS considered blacks as when they were rushing to build slave ships, and beating a path to Africa, and chaining them below decks in crowded quarters to bring them over here and sell them?

Oh, I see, they were really bringing them here to educate them in Massachusetts schools, and to convert them to Christianity right? I see.