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From: "Amelia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What a lovely fairy tale you have concocted concerning
> slavery in the northern states!
Dem's da facts, ma'am...I suggest you get yourself a few good books on American
History...
> Reread my sentence, too. I
> said they EITHER gave them letters of freedom OR just dumped
> them. meaning sold them in the South in an especially timely
> manner, only when it was evident they were going to be freed
> anyway. Ditto those letters of freedom--only after it was
> imminent anyway. Hardly the magnanimous gesture you attempt
> to fabricate.
Excuse me, but _I_ am not the one who fabricated the claim in the first place...if YOU
reread MY sentences,
you will see that I refer to the people involved as 'imaginary'...
> If my sentence makes no sense to you, it is
> your reading deficiency as it is perfectly clear what I have
> stated.
Only in your own 'sleep depraved' [sic] mind...
> There were not that many states admitted in the Missouri
> Compromise and they were Midwestern
> with low populations at the time.
Just ONE free state admitted under the Missouri Compromise negates your claim that
each and every state of the
union was a slave-holding state at one time...
> New England where you live is where the most slaves were.
And you can back up this claim....how?
> Talk about your revisionist
> history! Southern slaves were often given letters of
> freedom also and many did not leave their original homes
> even after receiving their letters.
Yes, that claim DOES sound extremely revisionist...
> It had become
> economically unfeasible in the South to maintain large slave
> populations on individual farms and would have been
> eliminated anyway but Lincoln wanted the credit,
If this was true, then why were all those supposedly starving whites still holding
onto slaves at the time of
the Emancipation Proclamation? Seems to me that if it was 'economically unfeasible'
to own slaves even before
the war, all those supposedly starving white slaveowners wouldn't have needed to be
forced to free them by
Lincoln, they would have just opened the door and told their slaves to get the hell
out of there...
> The factories of New England wanted the adult
> slaves to replace the children they were using as slaves in
> their factories without the expense of having the cradle to
> grave responsibility of slaves.
Bull. By the time the Industrial Revolution took hold in the northeast -- and this
was in the century BEFORE
the Civil War -- slavery was already being legislated out of existence in those states.
The industrialized north had no need of slaves, or even ex-slaves, as there were more
than enough bodies
immigrating from overseas to work cheaply in the mills and factories...
You spend the time researching the ethnic makeup of those who worked in the northern
mills and factories at
the time, and you will find that almost none of them employed blacks...first it was
Irish and German, later it
was Italian, Portuguese, and Russian and eastern European...
That situation lasted until well into the 20th century...blacks didn't start getting
employed in any numbers
in factories until the early 20th century, and then for the most part only in Detroit
and Chicago...
> And yes, that is exactly what I am saying,
> that whites shared what food they had with blacks for whom
> they were responsible.
Gee, if big bwanna white massa was so good, it's amazing that any black slave accepted
being freed...seems to
me those ex-slaves would have immediately voted to reinstitute slavery, since
according to you they had it so
good...
June
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