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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (467756)	9/30/2003 3:32:43 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

By the late colonial period, the average slave-owning household in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states seems to have had about 2 slaves. Estates of 50 or 60 slaves were rare. The Northern climate set huge barriers to large-scale agricultural slavery. The long winters, which brought no income on Northern farms, made slaves a burden for half the year unless they could be hired out to chop wood or tend livestock. Unlike Southern plantations, Northern slavery tended to be urban. The Northern States were not abolitionists, but rather did not use massive numbers of slaves purely for economic reasons. Saying the North didn't use slaves because they were moral abolitionists or Quakers is nonsense and is the real revisionism here. The truth is most of the people in the North didn't care about the slaves or the slave issue but they did care about whether their mills got cotton or not..after all a lot of their jobs producing textiles depended on cotton. Now thats something to go to war over.