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Tom Kunich
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> What I wrote was indecorous, but it was not wrong.
What would you consider "wrong"?
> Somebody in this thread gave the apologetic
> argument that the slaves couldn't have been freed in 1800
> without a bloodbath.
You still don't understand. There wasn't any MONEY at that time. Got that?
Without money everything is settled on the BARTER SYSTEM. If you freed
slaves then what did they have to barter? Their labor? For the uninitiated,
they didn't work very hard and produce very much and THAT is why the slavery
system would have resolved itself and Lincoln and most of the other
northerners knew that and that's why they were will to leave slavery alone
in order to maintain the union.
Perhaps the slaveholders didn't much care whether their (ex) slaves lived or
died if they were freed but most right thinking people in the north were
actually concerned about what would happen to the slaves if they were dumped
upon the labor market without the market being prepared.
What happened to the MAJORITY of slaves after the Civil War? They remained
on their plantations doing just what they'd done before.
news:969b9262-c319-480b-88c8-843a4e295348@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
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> What I wrote was indecorous, but it was not wrong.
What would you consider "wrong"?
> Somebody in this thread gave the apologetic
> argument that the slaves couldn't have been freed in 1800
> without a bloodbath.
You still don't understand. There wasn't any MONEY at that time. Got that?
Without money everything is settled on the BARTER SYSTEM. If you freed
slaves then what did they have to barter? Their labor? For the uninitiated,
they didn't work very hard and produce very much and THAT is why the slavery
system would have resolved itself and Lincoln and most of the other
northerners knew that and that's why they were will to leave slavery alone
in order to maintain the union.
Perhaps the slaveholders didn't much care whether their (ex) slaves lived or
died if they were freed but most right thinking people in the north were
actually concerned about what would happen to the slaves if they were dumped
upon the labor market without the market being prepared.
What happened to the MAJORITY of slaves after the Civil War? They remained
on their plantations doing just what they'd done before.