But, again, if you were the slave, how long would you be willing to wait
for your freedom?

If your suppositions about the freedom of slaveowners after emancipation
are true, why did slaveowners resist the change?

                                                        Anne

At 10:24 PM 2/22/03 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 2/22/03 4:21:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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>
>
> > If you were a slave, how long would you have given the south to realize
> > that owning labor instead of machinery was ineffective?
> >
> >
>not as a slave but as a slave owner on a farm......
>The day I found out that I did have build housing for my labor....didn't have
>to worry about their heath....nor worry about what they eat....what there
>wore.....cheaper labor in the long run just to pay them by with amount of
>product they produce.
>
>WC Buser
>
>WC Buser
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