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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (89176)11/22/2004 7:38:51 PM
From: redfish  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The civil war has nothing to do with racism. Despite the abolishment of slavery, both the south and the north managed to deprive black people of their civil rights for over 100 years after the war had ended.

Had the south been allowed to secede, imo the civil rights movement would have come about a lot sooner and more peacefully, as the lingering bitterness would not have been available as a political tool to politicians like George Wallace.

Slavery was in its last gasps anyway, as all of the potential purchasers for the south's cotton would have insisted on abolition as a condition to continued trade within 20 years.
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