To: stand watie
"only about 5-6 % of southerners EVER owned a slave."
Well, yes, if you count the slaves as southerners.
But if you look at the state governments, to include state governors and legislatures, you will find that it is closer to 70 percent who owned slaves. And you would find that they enslaved whites (through the draft) just as they enslaved blacks. They tried to enslave indians, but it largely didn't work.
949 posted on
10/10/2003 8:09:52 PM PDT by
donmeaker
(Bigamy is one wife too many. So is monogamy.)
To: donmeaker
would you care to explain that SILLY & OBTUSE post??
inquiring minds want to know.
free dixie,sw
950 posted on
10/11/2003 8:46:41 AM PDT by
stand watie
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