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Old 08-24-2008, 06:51 PM   #82 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by savannah View Post
not that i really feel like gettin into this right now,...slavery in the pre war south was more about tending your crop than it was about race,.....there were just as many poor whites workin those fields as there were blacks,....
also,..i'm astounded you wouldnt think a lynch mob is romantic,....after all, everyone looks better in bon fire light, and there was normally one of those around,......not that i would know
Even if that were true (which it isn't) there is a very fundamental difference you are overlooking. Whites were free and could not be legally held as slaves.
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