Well, after all, I am a historian with several degrees. I am from the South originally, and therefore am considered an expert on Southern culture. I attended several Southern universities, studying under notable historians. Later, migrating North, I achieved graduate degrees, and completed several papers on the history of slavery. One undergraduate paper I did was on slave breeding, and interestingly enough, I used the Internet to source new material. This, of course, was the forerunner to today's modern research by some of the posters here, and influenced the Howard Dean planning team on support and fundraising.
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I am a research assistant at a major New England learning center, and having done quite a bit of research on the slave breeding in the South, maybe I can help you.
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I have online access to electronic versions of the following peer-reviewed economic journals:
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Yes, today what we might call luxuries were lavished upon the breeding class in the middle states. However, studies show that the more luxuries they obtained, at one point procreation related activities began to decline, producing, if you will, a breeding bell curve. And thank you for your suggestion that recreation leather ball point acquisition, and procreation scoring might be affected by an external independant variable, instead of direct causation.
This may require further data review. I will take this concept of yours to my moderated research and discussion group to view their research, and obtain a final answer.
Best wishes from Boston Cosmo
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With no radios, t.v.s, or stereos, the occupants took many baths, and would retire early. Wealthy landowners were importing large amounts of lovely bedding, fine perfumes, wine, whiskey, and cigars. All of these items were given the procreants for their enjoyment, and were readily available in the log cabins. Thus the large trade in fine wines and cigars was for the benefit of these people.
On weekends, the slave owners would supply the breeding population with recreational pastimes. Oval shaped leather balls were given to the men who then proceeded to organize groups that would move these balls over the fields. The females were given decorated gingham short skirts which permitted jumping and cartwheels, and encouraged to affiliate them selves with these groups and to verbally encourage their favorite groups to move the balls. A point system eventually followed and enabled scoring of the activity. This was the forerunner to today's game of football. Occasionally to reward the participants, baskets of peaches were brought to the field, and eventually someone thought to tack one to a tree. Tossing of the ball into the basket also became popular.
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Greetings from Boston. Here is the perspective on Lincoln from my dissertation -->Even though the large majority of Americans, North and South, believed in a right of secession as of 1861, upon taking office Lincoln implemented a series of unconstitutional acts of such monumental proportions that no man who had the least bit of respect for constitutional liberty could have done such things.
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Hello and Greetings from Boston As you may remember, I am a noted historian and former resident of the South. I beleive you said "No distortion is too low for him or his gullible fans."
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"Cosmo," your m.o. is familiar by now. You are even more of a liar and braggart than squattie. Who are you to "reprimand" anyone?