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At some point. The key is that they saw the error of their ways. The British Empire abolished slavery in 1833, and then was a leader in stamping out slavery across the seas. The Confederacy....not so much.
Not exactly true. It is easy to become moralisitic when there is no longer any profit in it. It is like the northern states when they abolished slavery. It was only because it was no longer a money-maker.
For northern industrialists, it was easier to hire and fire "free workers" at will and then toss them out into the street when they got sick, old, injured, etc. Also, keep them bound to the "company store" for their period of employment. On a related tangent, this is one reason why "labor unions" have always been MUCH for popular in the North than the South.
Anyway, make no mistake. Northern interests made profit off slavery long after it was abolished up there (which was never done at any rate in a way as to cause northern slave owners any financial hardship!). Here again are some links:
In a few days several states will have a state holiday honoring our beloved Confederate leaders.I just want to thank the people of the South for keeping the honor of these heroes alive.I hope all true southerners will take a child niece or nephew to a battlefield site to keep this great tradition alive,always Confederate Memorial Day
People who glorify the Confederacy are an embarrassment to the United States of America. No matter how you try to spin, they were traitors. All you have to do is look at the history of the some of the posters in here to know that they are RACIST. Celebrating the this is like having Apartheid day in South Africa or black people celebrating Nat Turner's rebellion or OJ's acquittal. So far we have someone who thinks that slaves were happy, blacks are not natural born citizens and people that post in every race baiting thread that is ever posted just to once again attempt to prove that "the blacks" are horrible people. As disgusting as that is, I find comfort in the truth, which is that anyone sitting on that side of the fence or in that delusional place in their mind where we go back to the original version of the constition and whites are superior is a straight-up ignorant, loser. We have made enough progress that none of this BS really matters - you have nothing but your opionions and your hatred. What a miserable state of being.
O.J Simpson Not Guilty Verdict - White People and Black People Reactions - YouTube (http://youtu.be/WVaAEy4SXCk - broken link) you mean like these black people celebratimg
The best part of this part of this thread is that so many people here are willing to take the words of Harriet Beecher Stowe about how evil slave owners were. Mrs. Stowe is the woman that Abe Lincoln referred to as the "Little lady that started our war". I think that some slavers were evil enough to use whips or let their overseers do so. However, slave owners too often treated their slaves as well as they would their breed stock. I don't know many cattlemen who would beat their best bulls with boards and think that most of those slave owners felt the same way. When field hands were worth over $1500, which was a lot more than it is today, they wouldn't really punish them as so many people say.
You do know that Uncle Tom's Cabin told the story the way most of you want to think it was?
Yes.....slaves were treated well by their owners because they were things of great value.
This makes no sense, it is like celebrating a holiday for Benedict Arnold or the Rosenbergs.
Benedict arnold was true to the british king george. The rosenbergs were true to marx. One man's traitor is another man's patriot.
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