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To: Neocon who wrote (17)1/27/2003 4:34:46 PM
From: KonKilo  Read Replies (1) of 341
 
I think you underestimate the degree to which the system of racial subordination affected all (or nearly all) classes. White labor was not eager to compete with black labor in an open market, nor was a white man eager to see his family tainted by miscegenation......

I think it goes deeper than that yet. Blacks were not even considered people at that time by a majority of citizens in the North and South both, abolitionists being the notable exception.

Much as women were once considered chattel in some cultures, blacks were considered property, even by the Constitution.

Any discussion of how they were treated must take this viewpoint in mind, hard as it is to wrap our modern minds around the concept.
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