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Originally Posted by Steve B
Heh, and it's been done here at VNN. I recall Rounder and Ron Doggett making similar points. Basically they were saying pretty much what you are, that is if the South had won the war Southerners would have come to the proper conclusion regarding the slavery issue. I remember thinking it was an overly optimistic premise and that leaving what to do about nog slaves up to rich White Southern plantation owners (the same guys who imported slaves because they were to greedy, cheap and power hungry to give a White working man a fair wage) was pie in the sky thinking.
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White Southern plantation owners never imported a single negro.
As to your 'what if', the South wasn't fighting to keep slavery because they thought it a great thing, even though some did defend it on those grounds. They fought to prevent the morons in DC from loosing Africans among the Whites. They also fought for governmental independence from such morons.