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From: "L.A.McGinnis" <>
Subject: Re: food for thought
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:51:18 -0500


Think I can help here -

>

>90% of the whites in the south did not own slaves.
>

slavery would have died out - was due to the invention of
the cotton gin; it was not as prevalent as some today want us to think
either -
remember indentured servants and other servants were not
slaves then or at anytime of history -

>
>Most of the union army was made up of immigrants who were give $1500
>enlistment money. Most of the northern men who served and were not
>immigrants,were drafted. The north allowed a man to pay $300 to avoid the
>draft. I do not know what a years wage was in1860,do any of you?
>

this information is available in your local libraries -
check governmental documents, census records, . . .

>
>Would you fight and die for the right of someone else to own something your
>either could not afford to own or that your felt was wrong to own?
>

this is one reason slavery was dying out anyway, and with the
invention of the cotton gin would have.
this is also the reason the Quakers, and others, started what
has been referred to as the "Underground RR" - checking history will show
that whenever atrocities occur in history, there's a movement to get people
'back on track' -

hoping this helps,

anne-ology

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/8379/index.htm

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