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Re: States Rights and Slavery
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"OK, Doesn't matter to me how you want to put it but your statements sure contradict each other. The way I see it no matter what you call it peas is peas corn is corn right is right and wrong is wrong."

I may be missing something here - what statements of mine are contradictory?

"So it is your way of thinking that every man, woman and child in the South was somehow tied to slavery? Those that were not aspired to be slave owners? What a crock."

Straw man argument that misrepresents what I said. To restate my point, you didn't have to hold title to slaves yourself to be closely tied to the economic and social status slaveowning implied - your family was tied to it, as were employees you helped support, etc. Do you deny that many thousands of "poor white trash" (your words, not mine) aspired to be slaveowners some day, given that owning a slave meant you had at least a small measure of economic success? Note wording: "many thousands", not "all."

"Now I just gotta know, if the the poor white trash in the South only goal was to be a slave owner what was the goal of the poor whites in the North? To be abolitionist or conductors on the underground railroad?"

I imagine the goal of the poor whites in the North was to have enough food and shelter, and maybe, someday, make a better life for themselves and their families - kinda like those in the South.

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