Fools and their money soon part company. Slavery was almost non existent in the mountain counties in the Appalachians, none of that matters now.
We owe a great debt of gratitude to those willing to the transcend the bounds of sanity, so we don’t have to.
“Slavery was almost non existent in the mountain counties in the Appalachians, none of that matters now.”
totally ... the white Appalachian mountain population was extremely poor themselves (i know that because i’m a descendant), barely scraping a hard-scrabble living out of poor mountain land, with no means to purchase much of anything, much less expensive slaves that they had no use for ...
“Slavery was almost non existent in the mountain counties in the Appalachians…”
Add to that, my NC hillbilly kin were conscripted to serve in the CSA and faced 39 lashes or the firing squad if they failed to comply.