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To: DiogenesLamp; jmacusa

Sorry, my mistake, I should have made it clear that my statements were in response to the question, “If the South had won the war would it have ended slavery?” Posted by jmacusa. My emphatic answer to that question is, “no”. If you would like to take a crack at answering that question with a simple yes or no, I would welcome your response. Note that the question can be answered without any mention of the North.


1,035 posted on 11/03/2015 11:56:58 AM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: HandyDandy
Sorry, my mistake, I should have made it clear that my statements were in response to the question, “If the South had won the war would it have ended slavery?”

It's an old thread. I haven't been paying much attention to it lately.

And the answer to your question is "yes", but it would have taken longer. On the plus side, it would have kept constitutional protections then in existence that were damaged by the aftermath of the war.

Slavery was evolving out of the culture. As the Northern States one by one gave it up, so too would the Southern states eventually, and for the same reason; Social pressure.

It was just more difficult for the Southern states because so much of their economic activity relied on it, whereas most of the economic activity in the North did not. Indeed, Slavery became seen as a competition to the labor market, and in the North was vehemently opposed on that basis too.

1,037 posted on 11/03/2015 12:09:13 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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