Re: [DL] Freeing the Slaves

[Ratbastryd@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/31/2002 10:08:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
sosentinel@adelphia.net writes:

<< No, and any thorough reading of history (especially the 
 first-person history) puts this to the lie. Slavery mattered to the less 
 than 10% of Southerners who owned slaves; the rest were concerened with 
 other issues, primarily defending their homes and families.
          Read Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson's 
 authoritative _For Cause and Comrades_. McPherson's made a career burying 
 the South, and even he agrees that very few Southerners were motivated to 
 take up arms to defend slavery. The book will open any reader's eyes.
  >>

But weren't the policymakers interested in keeping slavery alive? And 
couldn't policymakers dupe the great amount of people into fighting for them?

Just a suggestion.

Peter Berard

"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"

-Admiral David Farragut, Siege of Mobile 

"Well, once you start thinking you're the Pope, it's a short step to 
murdering people"

-Detective Briscoe, Law and Order