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To: Ish who wrote (193995)	10/20/2001 1:34:01 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Respond to of 769667

About two Kentuckians wore blue for every one that wore gray. In Missouri it was closer to 50-50. I would agree with your assessment that slaves in Kentucky (as a whole) had a better life than their counterparts in, say, Mississippi or South Carolina. ("My Old Kentucky Home" actually is a slave's lament for his Kentucky home ... after he was sold to an owner in a different state.) On the other hand, the slave auction in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was based on an auction actually witnessed by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Washington, Kentucky, right across the Ohio River from Aberdeen-Ripley, Ohio, stops on the Underground Railroad. I'm not sure exactly why Kentucky and Missouri were represented on the Stars and Bars. I know Missouri had a working Confederate state legislature after the start of the Civil War, and actually established Neosho, and not Jefferson City, as the state capital.