[antivenom]

Interesting topic...it would seem to me that the south was caught up in a man made commodity.

The north had no need for the commodity, the buying and selling and propagation of slaves.

Look at some types of commodities currently addressed as a financial activity on the stock market...

The way slaves were marketed yesteryear seemed goofy to the North and to us today...imagine what some in the world think of trading pork bellies on the open market...

[stand watie]

nope. absent the war, slavery wouldn't have lasted, anywhere in the country,for another decade, as the Industrial Revolution had come to agriculture.

but then only NITWITS believe the war was about slavery. it was about FREEDOM for dixie. (or "preserving the union", if you're a bluecoat apologist)

free dixie,sw