Posted on 10/11/2007 2:41:12 PM PDT by Lorianne
History books leave out a lot of things about the south in order to demonize it.
We could start with the fact less than 5% of southerners owned slaves they were too expensive to keep and those that owned has less than 3.
Some well off southerners would buy whole families in order to keep them together in stead of allowing them to be split up.
Most people who had a slave worked in the field right along side their slave and the slave(s) ate, lived, and worshipped with the white family. The illusion of all southerns being large plantation orders is a crock.
Most slaves jobs were task oriented and assign duties at the beginning of every week, if they finished these tasks early they were allowed to travel freely over county lines ( several miles ) to visit friends and family as long as they returned by an allotted time simialr to our weekends.
The mistreatment of slaves was not as rampant as movies/liberals depict, why would you beat something you paid lots of money for, i.e. like a race horse and risk damaging it. I am not saying it didn’t happen, it did.
The state of Ohio ( a northern state ) was founded as a sanctuary for freed and run away slaves but had a state law prohibiting black from immigrating there. Other northern states also had prohibition on blacks.
If you doubt this read some memoirs and biographies of black slaves that are in the Library of Congress and other places that the Jesse Jackson of the world don’t want you to read.
They tell a different story.
“History books leave out a lot of things about the south in order to demonize it.”
If I was trying to list things for Southerners to base regional pride upon, slavery would not be on the list.
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Yes. Unfortunatly you southerners should know that the CBF has been the flag of choice for Yankee racists in places like central PA and Wisconsin for at least three decades now. I think you guys should start telling these folks to stop stealing your flag.
What would you list...??
I know Americans who had no ancestors in America in 1865 who are proud to don the gray and commemorate the patriots of the War for Southern Independence. American heroes are heroes for ALL Americans who choose to recognize them. To properly appreciate the service of those who preserved the Union, one must understand the nature of those who fought to leave it.
And yet at leasst two southern states, South Carolina and Mississippi, had more slaves than whites, and in several more they were more or less equal in population.
Why,,,You think Yankees are smart enough to understaand the truth...?
What is a you guys..?
As opposed to Illinois, which banned blacks.
Maybe because they are history books and not fairy tales? Other than the figure that 5% owned slaves I'm not aware of any source that supports any of your other claims.
That would come as a heck of a surprise to the thousands of blacks who lived there. According to the 1860 census, Illinois' free black population of 7628 was larger than the free black population of all but two of the original 7 rebelling states. In fact, Illinois had more free blacks than Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas combined.
Let me interject a sec, because I'm a 13th generation Yankee who moved south 21 years ago.
We know how to vote and keep the states Red, unlike, most anyone north of the Mason-Dixon. We have a much better mix of cuisine. We can decorate homes a hell of a lot better. Our single-wides are nicer than northern ghetto homes. We don't take two decades to repair a highway and we can build tunnels underwater better than Northerners can through mountains. And last, we don't tax ourselves into the poor house.
And you have nothing to say of the man this article is about..?
And yet the 1860 census counted 7628 of them living there, more than the free black populations of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia combined. Some southern states had laws that forced freed slaves to leave the state or be returned to slavery.
Not a lot, no. I have no doubt that his beliefs are sincere but he keeps spouting the same old southron song-and-dance. It wasn't about slavery. Unilateral secession was constitutional. Lincoln was a dictator. The South paid a disproportionate part of the taxes. Slavery was dying out. No different than any other southron supporter who has drunk the confederate koolaid..
I know! The USA hasn’t done well at all since 1865.
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