To: VOA
had to be convinced by war to give up the practice of slavery... They didn't. Abolitionist movements led by Christians in the North and South would have had slavery eradicated in the United States within another 20-30 years. The Civil War was about states rights, not slavery.
18 posted on
11/09/2003 11:00:03 AM PST by
xrp
To: xrp
They didn't. Abolitionist movements led by Christians in the North and South would have had slavery eradicated in the United States within another 20-30 years. The Civil War was about states rights, not slavery.
Shhh! You're not allowed to say that because we, the sheeple, don't want it to be true.
36 posted on
11/09/2003 12:24:58 PM PST by
Thoro
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