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To: Huck
Some called it a necessary "evil"....even though they practiced it. I disagree with many on this forum from the Northern perspective. I believe it would have died out on it's own within 50 years or so. The parallel demise of the institution in the Americas bears this out in my view.

That is why the war was not strictly about slavery. It was just another incorporation of a region of the country into the Federalized Union. Sort of a rock rolling down a hill...the momentum carried the day....and the foolishness of many.

32 posted on 06/08/2002 6:57:49 PM PDT by wardaddy
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To: wardaddy
I disagree with many on this forum from the Northern perspective. I believe it would have died out on it's own within 50 years or so. The parallel demise of the institution in the Americas bears this out in my view.

We'll never know. What we do know is that Jeff Davis and others in America were attempting as late as the 1850s to expand slavery not only across the rest of the North American continent, but also south into Cuba.

34 posted on 06/08/2002 8:36:30 PM PDT by Huck
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