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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is bubba at the diner?  He doesn't seem very sophisticated unlike the fine northern families who plied the slave trade.[/quote]

90% of the US slave trade was operated out of Georgia and the Carolinas.  Slave importation was abolished in 1808.  Slavery was abolished in most of the northern states by 1820.  It was the Southerners who kept on enslaving generation after generation of home grown slaves after importation was abolished.[/quote]

Abolishing slavery in the northern states wasn't much of an issue as they were not dependent on slaves for their industries etc. while the agricultural crops of tobacco & cotton required lots of hands. But the north continued to profit from slavery financially after 1820 up to the Civil War. They were not averse to trading various financial instruments that directly related to slave labor. Nor were they averse to products that were directly related to slavery.

And before anyone raises the northern states based on their anti slavery lets remember that the barons of the day, and others, exploited workers with low wages, company towns, child labor. Many died due to the deplorable conditions they worked in and their freedoms so limited they were virtual slaves. That continued, and grew, throughout the 19th century.[/quote]

That's a deflection.  The North wasn't forcing the South to continue to practice slavery.  The North found other ways to conduct their business and in fact it was the Northern states that continued to lead the charge in working toward equity and better conditions for workers - the North was far ahead of the South in terms of improving conditions where it came to sharecroppers and indentured servants.[/quote]

Before anyone starts talking about how the "greatest generation" saved the country from "the evil Nazis" let's all take a deep breath and remember that blacks were being lynched in the South, and the US was still a hotbed of virulent antisemitism. So, you know, no one was "innocent". Also, we have to really look at things in the context of the time. Different times, different mores. [/quote]

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