Posted on 06/21/2015 6:07:40 PM PDT by PROCON
Edited on 06/21/2015 6:29:18 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
They are irrelevant facts. Guess what, some Jews actually worked in the camps and sold out their fellow Jews. So? Whats your point?
Speaking of irrelevant facts...
Thank you for proving my point.
There were court cases that made it illegal. Just because the Massachusetts legislature never passed a law outlawing it is irrelevant. I'm not aware of a single Southern state that passed a law outlawing slavery either, but the 13th Amendment kind of made such laws irrelevant.
Massachusetts and other New England states made a lot of money with the slave trade. Later they made more money using cotton from the south and manufacturing textiles. They were happy to buy the raw materials that were the result of slave labor. They themselves were owners and slave traders.
Somehow northerners want to be seen as innocent and southerners as guilty even though they profited as much, if not more, than southerners.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the South was willing to start a war to defend slavery, thus leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of men and the devastation of thousands of square miles of land that makes the South the villain on the whole issue of slavery?
Most of them don’t even know there was a Second World War. Or for that matter a First World War.
Yeah. And will they disband that other Democrat creation, The Ku Klux Klan?
The stupid twit governor gave an inch now the MSM is coming for their mile.
Prior to 1807 most slaves ships flew the USA ensign and were registered in Massachusetts and other Yankee states.
And unlikely she has much respect for our history.
This is true. They’re almost like muslims running around the Mideast destroying Buddhist artifacts...mindless.
What do you think the mile will be? I think it’ll be Confederate monuments.
The “inch” is the Confederate symbolism the mile is the “2nd amendment”.
Gotcha.
Lady Jane, don’t engage with these sore winners. It isn’t worth it; it’s like engaging with the people over on the religious forms. Dog with bone!
But none of them ended up in Norfolk or Charleston, right General?
It didn’t take a war to end slavery in the North but sure as hell took one to end it in the South.
Where in the world do you people come up with such garbage?
Massachusetts was one of the first northern states to outlaw slavery, in 1783.
So you don't embarrass yourself again on this, here is a timeline of who abolished slavery when.
ladyjane: "But Massachusetts was happy to make a lot of money off of the war, the uniforms, the ammunition and the rifles. Does that stink too?"
Every northern state contributed both blood and treasure to the Union, and Massachusetts was not the biggest manufacturer.
The Confederacy also had industries devoted to war materials production, though substantially fewer, resulting in Confederate troops often poorly equipped and supplied.
ladyjane: "And northerners have been happy ever since to re-write the history of what really happened."
Nothing posted on the pro-Union side here even comes close to the cockamamie nonsense you pro-Confederates concoct for every occasion, FRiend.
ladyjane: "I hope you are aware that there were thousands of blacks who owned slaves in the south and thousands of whites who did not."
In 1860 there were about four million black slaves and half a million freed blacks.
About 13,000 slaves (three tenths of 1%) were owned by 4,000 black slave owners, 80% of those in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia & Maryland.
The majority of black slave owners were mixed-race.
The numbers of white slave-owning families was nearly 50% in the Deep South, falling nearer to 10% in Border States.
So the dividing line between southern states which joined the Confederacy, versus those which did not was about 20%.
Border States of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, western Virginia and Delaware all had fewer than 20% slave owning families, and so refused to join the Confederacy.
ladyjane: "And do you know that some slaves petitioned to go back into slavery because they were having a hard time taking care of themselves."
Selling oneself into slavery to pay off debts was a practice as old as civilization, but there are no records I know of, of slaves having once escaped to freedom in the North, voluntarily returning South to slavery.
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