[MichiganConservative]

I understnad what you're saying. If I had the choice of investments in factories vs. investments in slave farm-labor, I'd choose investing in factories. Machines don't have minds of their own that could turn against you, epspecially if you employ them in the war effort and give them weapons. Those farmboys from the midwest probably were not as big a worry for the Union army than it would have been for the South had the South tried to use lots of slaves in their army.

[Ciexyz]

I remember the flap over Angela Davis in the 60's. It was almost universally believed in mainstream America that she should have been in jail but that she was protected by the California leftist university system.