Slavery was made legal in Africa and sold to purchases from across the planet by Blacks.for IM2. TRUE---most people who fought in the civil war or lived during that time did not die to free slaves---
a very few did. Not true is IM2's position that
"WHITES" invented slavery.
Slavery was made legal in the UNITED STATES by whites. You want to go back a million years in order to say you are not responsible. But we are talking about the claim of whites dying to free us.
Slavery was made legal in the US by US law.
Don't know how you could CONSISTENTLY be so wrong on so many pages here. The Constitution did not make slavery legal. It just didn't prohibit it. That was a decision made by the STATES at that time. The Constitution had to accomodate those states that specifically profited from it. And I don't KNOW but I suspect, not many States actually "made slavery legal". They just did not prohibit it at the time.
As for free blacks in America -- they were about 1,8% of the ENTIRE POPULATION of the US -- 1860 BEFORE the war.. And what's more per capita of ALL PERSONS -- there were more free Blacks in the South than in the (existing) old North.
The upper South had more than THREE TIMES the percentage of free Blacks than the Northern regions did in 1860 when viewed as percentage of the TOTAL population of those regions.. In fact 3% of that upper South total population were FREE BLACKS. And the lower South had similar numbers of FREE BLACKS that equaled most Northern regions.
Folks who went to the school in the South KNOW the set-up for the Civil War.
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So it wouldn't be crazy to suggest that MANY of those free blacks had a few slaves as well about 1860 in the South. It happened. Don't have the numbers at my finger tips -- but I've seen them..
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