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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (89181)	11/27/2004 4:21:24 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 108807

The civil war has nothing to do with racism. Southern secessionists said they were seceding to protect the institution of slavery. I suppose because the Republican party platform supported abolition - one of those values issues. 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. That is ridiculous. If the south had seceded, slavery might well still exist there. Forget about civil rights. They wouldn't exist for blacks at all. 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. Doubtful IMO. The European empires did outlaw slavery within their own empires, but the idea they'd boycott the south seems fanciful to me.