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"So slavery was good, not evil?" Well, Sherman didn't think it was as evil as the abolitionists said. He wrote: "As far as I can judge, niggers feel very lighty indeed the chains of their bondage we read of....I know that the idea of oppression and tyranny that some people consider the necessary accompaniment of slavery is a delusion of their own brain." For a better understanding of slavery, I suggest that you read Fogel's Nobel Prize winning study of slavery:"Time on the Cross." He says that 90% of the value created by a slave was returned over a life time. So slave labor was not free and it was not cheap. The planters were proud of their system because everyone was provided a living from the cradle to the grave. Anyway, the point of my post was that we should not accept propaganda as truth. And as I noted, I saw first-hand how US propaganda was in conflict with the truth in Vietnam. Over the years I've come to see that we live in propaganda and advertisment induced fog of lies. Like JC said, "Seek the truth."

"So slavery was good, not evil?" Well, Sherman didn't think it was as evil as the abolitionists said.

What do -you- think?

Walt