Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Only about 5% of the people in the South actually had slaves .
During the far majority of the many years of slavery on this continent it existed with the approval and encouragement of the British Monarchy . Do the math . We were not even a Nation until 1789 . The Federal Gvt was very weak by design until Lincoln . The States were superior to the Federal Gvt . The Fed Gvt was still fighting off the Brits until 1814 . Yes it took another 51 years for slavery to end which was sad but the Fed Gvt had very limited power to do anything . |
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The 3/5ths ruling was to limit the impact of slaves on Congressional representation, it was political. Slaves gave the south "too many" representatives due to the slave population. It wasn't for the census. Quote:
The slaves were "released" for one reason and one reason only...mechanization. Machinery replaced the slaves, tractors could do the work of 100 men. it wasn't altruism or philanthropy that freed the slaves, it was politics backed up by their mechanized replacements waiting in the wings. Quote:
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There still are...plenty of them...in AFRICA! The same people who sold us ours are still enslaving others. And WE'RE the "bad guys"? Quote:
In the north slaves were seen as unfair competition, workers who didn't get paid kept the cost of production down. Other business owners didn't want the unfair competition. And here you thought the slave/free state arguments were about human rights and equality...you were wrong. The slavery issue was a political issue. Lincoln used it to seize state power. Not unlike Constantine using Christianity. |
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If you know anything about history you should know a lot of black men owned slaves.
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The people making the racists remarks in this post, are you Christians?
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"What difference does it make?" says the wicked witch of Chicago.
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NO ! We are all CNM !!
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