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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Ok, even if true, and I'm not totally sold on that, the white/black caste system in the south made it much easier for whites to buy/own land and generally succeed than their black neighbors. Maybe not on the backs of slaves. But, at a much better advantage than black americans. So, don't congratulate yourself (the collective you) at your families self-made wealth. Even if they worked hard for it, they had significant advantages that tilted things in their favor. [/quote]

You're addressing my response with this.  Nobody's arguing with it.  It's the notion that everyone's trust fund in the south is slavery money that is the problem.  [b]All of that went poof in 1865.  [/b]I don't have data, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's northern trust funds tied to it though.  We'd need a whole new thread....[/quote]

[b]No, it did not. And if you're going to make such an outlandish, uneducated opinion, you need to source it.[/b]I like how you do the southern deb thing of trying sweetly to imply it was those damn Yankees that stole your granddaddy's family fortune. Get a book and learn: the entire US economy - North and South - benefited enormously from the unpaid, enforced labor of Africans and their descendants. [/quote]

I'm sorry you need a "source," but I will offer the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1865.  It formally ended slavery and with it the value of wealth held in slaves.  Hence, "poof."

And I haven't seen a post in this thread about yankees, damned or otherwise, stealing anything.  Maybe I missed it.

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You're sorry I requested a source, because you're wrong and you don't have one. As has been pointed out several times, Jim Crow laws functionally kept slavery humming for several more decades. And when I ask for evidence of "poof," by the way, I am asking for proof that the money just up and disappeared. You seem content to imply that Northerners mysteriously ended up with all the money, which, if it all went "poof" with Emancipation, how did they get the money? Were slaves just deposited in Northern bank accounts? Do you see how your myths don't make sense?[/quote]

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