But you guys are totally missing the point here. Slavery was an unconscionable abomination but it was not all that the South was. Slavery has absoluely nothing to commend it, but there are millions of black people living free, happy, productive lives in the USA because somebody dragged their ancesters over here on slave ships. Had that not happened those same American black people might not even be alive or the odds are strong that they would be living in abject poverty and constant oppression under some brutal African warlord.
So let's regain some perspective here okay? Slavery no longer exists. It would have ended without the Civil War just as it ended in Canada and Mexico, naturally and out of conscience instead of via government mandate. Slavery is not all that the South was, not all that southerners, black or white, were or are.
The OP provides a very interesting concept of what course two separate nations might have taken had the South been allowed to secede peacefully. Can ya'll step outside your racist and political correctness suits for just a few moments and consider that?
So let's regain some perspective here okay? Slavery no longer exists. It would have ended without the Civil War just as it ended in Canada and Mexico, naturally and out of conscience instead of via government mandate. Slavery is not all that the South was, not all that southerners, black or white, were or are.
The OP provides a very interesting concept of what course two separate nations might have taken had the South been allowed to secede peacefully. Can ya'll step outside your racist and political correctness suits for just a few moments and consider that?
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