[stand watie]

see post #274, this thread. Walt and NUMEROUS other arrogant,hatefilled,racebaiting,ignorant damnyankees on this forum like spouting off MADE-UP figures like the "1/3 owned slaves" nonsense. they also have the habit of asking me to document my sources, BUT only post more BUNK & LIES about the southland and her continuing LUST for FREEDOM, when i ask them for their PRIMARY SOURCES, rather than the drivel/opinions of some third-rate,liberal,south-hating professor from the poison-ivy covered halls of NE academia.

for dixie,sw

[exmarine]

It sounds from your post that while you criticize others for hatefulness, you have some hate yourself.

I am neither pro-southern nor pro-northern. I believe (as did one of our founding fathers, Goveurner Morris - not to mention Jeff Davis) that it was legal and constitutional for the South to secede. On the flip side, however, slavery should have been stamped out. It was evil. Whether or not slavery was the primary cause of the war or not is not really relevant. It was part of the cause for sure. There is no doubt that slavery is exceedingly evil and slavery was central to the southern economy and culture. There is no denying it.

[WhiskeyPapa]

see post #274, this thread. Walt and NUMEROUS other arrogant,hatefilled,racebaiting,ignorant damnyankees on this forum like spouting off MADE-UP figures like the "1/3 owned slaves" nonsense. they also have the habit of asking me to document my sources, BUT only post more BUNK & LIES about the southland and her continuing LUST for FREEDOM, when i ask them for their PRIMARY SOURCES, rather than the drivel/opinions of some third-rate,liberal,south-hating professor from the poison-ivy covered halls of NE academia.

for dixie,sw

The data I used was in the 1850 census.

One third of the households in the south were slave owning households. It was called the most important specie of property in the whole world. According to the taker of the 1850 census, more people in the south had slaves than had real property in the north.

See post #127 in this thread.

Walt