Do You Support Slavery in the American South?

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Are the people living in slavery today any less human than the slaves of the South?

I don't support slavery in the South, or in Great Britain, or anywhere else. Would I support an imperialistic war to end it? No, not on that basis. To what end do we take this? Are we going to engage in a futile, endless world war to end all the injustice in the world?

That said, secession is illegal, so the Civil War was justified.

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Yeah, what percentage of the free, adult Southern population owned slaves?

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Yeah, what percentage of the free, adult Southern population owned slaves?

4% Max

Interesting. We were never taught this in school (gee, that's a surprise). I always had the impression it was at least a very large minority.

Do you have a source for that?

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Yeah, what percentage of the free, adult Southern population owned slaves?

4% Max

Interesting. We were never taught this in school (gee, that's a surprise). I always had the impression it was at least a very large minority.

Do you have a source for that?

I remember being taught that in school.

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Yawn.

Um, okay. It isn't in my text book.

What do you mean "yawn?"

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I'd imagine that most textbooks, when discussing the slave-ownership in the south would probably mention percentages somewhere.

And by "yawn" I mean that your comparison between economic taxation and physical slavery is absurd.

Well, see Jake's post.

I'm not talking about economic taxation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

"Some states such as Myanmar and Sudan do facilitate the institution of slavery, according to anti-slavery groups such as Free the Slaves. In these cases, unfree labourers are often told that they are working off a debt, but to have no access to an accounting for that debt, and no right to take any higher-paying or less supervised employment."