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Gerald Harp wrote:
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> -Caveat Lector-
>
> In a message dated 1/5/99 6:05:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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> > the nation
> > and the south and even the black population of the south would probably
> > have been better off if Lincoln had not forced the south through
> > military means back into the union.
>
> You don't seem
> to understand much about human nature. Slavery was not just an economic
> issue.
> It was a way of life and cheap self esteem. It was the dark pleasure of
> having absolute power over others. Slavery had deeply corrupted the South.
> To think that the results of slavery were typically benign or even neutral is
> fantasy. It is also naive to think that the slave
> masters would ever have voluntarily given up their corrupt power. Don't just
> focus on the shallow economics oriented histories, consider and read about
> the social/psychological realities.
>
> Jerry
>
So I don't know much about human nature? But you, I suppose are an
expert. Have you ever lived in the south? Have you ever really gotten to
know someone who had been a member of the Klu Klux Klan? Do you have a
friend who is black and lived in the south and is married to the
daughter of an Alabama farmer? You have NO comprehension of what you are
talking about when you start prattling about how "corrupted" the south
might have been or is now. You are the one who is living in a fantasy
world. Is it naive to think that the slave masters would ever have
voluntarily given up the "corrupt" powers? Is so, why had Lee and others
freed freed their slaves? Yes, there were economic reasons to believe
slavery would end. But there were other forces that would have ended it
as well. You are the one who is fantasizing in order to justify in your
own mind the federal government's war on the south and its imposition of
powers it was never granted by the Constitution.
best wishes, Howard Davis
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