Interesting speculation, that the bully is worried that he will be bullied
now that his victim grew?  Why didn't it occur to the South that they could
work out differences with compromise if they stopped wasting their
compromise "power" on slavery issues?

For as quickly as the south moved from secession to firing on the US Flag,
it has been more than one hundred years and former slaves and freemen are
still without dignity, respect, rights, and more in "the south". Sometimes
the "facts" of history become apparent by the study of the aftermath.
Sometimes a simple observation in current times puts the past in
perspective. (The students I teach are African-American but are not
Virginians but from Pennsylvania as I am. The difference in the whole
demeanor of these students varies so greatly from the African-American
students I've taught in Southside Virginia. These children expect to
receive respect from a white person, and except the youngest who were born
in Virginia, use eye contact and body language that indicates they expect
the respect they give, not something less.)

If you were a slave, how long would you have given the south to realize
that owning labor instead of machinery was ineffective?

                                                         Anne

At 03:05 PM 2/22/03 -0500, you wrote:
>meant the North would be the power....the North would then
>dictated the prices of capital goods which the South needed..dictated
>interest rates on loans...etc.. Frankly I think if the war had never come the
>South would moved away from slavery has a labor source as it becomes too
>expensive to maintain.
>
>WC Buser
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