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To: maro
i do NOT know EVEN ONE person who TODAY would defend chattal slavery.

nonetheless, slavery caused the WBTS in the same exact way that fish cause floods.

FRee dixie,sw

205 posted on 01/10/2003 9:29:36 PM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. : Thomas Jefferson 1774)
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To: stand watie
Read Post # 129. I think this fellow thinks that the enslavement of people who would be "lifted up" by slavery is perfectly OK. This is the very same argument that 19th century Southern slave owners used to justify slavery.
208 posted on 01/11/2003 2:02:33 AM PST by maro
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