[SSR1]

"If only our side had won our freedom.."

If we had won it would have doomed the slaves to 50 more years of misery before the whole system collapsed and left the South even more of an economic basket than it is now! Do we really think that the South would have been a better place if we had kept the slave system? I don't. Born and raised in the South. I love my homeland, but I'm glad we lost that war. We fought bravely,but our cause was not just. Slavery is wrong. Would you wish it on your children?

[jrg]

Slavery was an abomination! However, states rights were the issue.
I do agree that if the south had won, it would have been very bleak for the slaves and the South in the long term, but eventually, the entire system of slavery and their agricultural economy would break down .
I am basically a conservative, but it does pain me that it took around a hundred years before the blacks in this country were actually beginning to be treated correctly.
(please don't flame me for any welfare/goobermint giveaway programs....I'm a "Free beans and rice" to everyone.)