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To: Brad from Tennessee

Many of the soldiers in the Confederacy were drafted. This fact needs to be pointed out before monuments honoring them are taken down.


38 posted on 06/24/2015 11:01:19 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

[Many of the soldiers in the Confederacy were drafted. This fact needs to be pointed out before monuments honoring them are taken down.]

And few of them owned slaves. Less than 5 percent of Southerners were slave owners. Seventy-five percent of Southerners had no immediate economic interest in the maintenance of slavery or the plantation system.

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/less-than-5-of-southerners-owned-slaves.14868/


40 posted on 06/24/2015 11:23:30 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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