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To: Winged Hussar
Barack James Buchanan: Could Obama ...re-create economic conditions that led to Southern secession?

Not unless he's planning on bringing back chattel slavery.

17 posted on 03/10/2009 1:04:30 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

Congratulations - you are the first to mention slavery on this thread.


20 posted on 03/10/2009 1:06:02 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: Non-Sequitur

As stated in the article, slavery did not cause the Civil War (because Lincoln did not even think of the Emancipation Proclamation until well after the war began).

The problem was tariffs that strangled the South’s economy, and they would have done so had the South’s cotton been harvested by free workers on horse-powered or steam-powered cotton picking machines.


26 posted on 03/10/2009 1:15:54 PM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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