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stand watie wrote: …Paleo-Confederates from old rebel familes, who have NOT forgotten how grand it was to breathe free dixie air.

I wonder how that Dixie air smelled to those who were slaves?

By the way it's Fort Sumter, not Fort Sumpter as per your Reply #448.

[stand watie]

i wonder too how northern air smelled to the THOUSANDS of slaves owned by northerners & the institutions like banks & insurance companies of the north??

about the same, i would guess.

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[stand watie]

well, thanks.

you have found your niche in life, a semi-smart spellchecker!

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[stand watie]

as only about 5% of southerners ever owned a slave, your point is POINTLESS!

by 1860, chattal slavery was dying an UN-lamented death, as a result of the Industrial Revolution coming to agriculture.

BTW,a former chair of history at Tuskeegee University publically stated that in "1860, there were not 10,000 people in all of the USA that cared a damn about the plight of the slaves".

they SHOULD have, but they did NOT.

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