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To: HPilot who wrote (448926)	1/20/2009 10:46:33 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576003

IMO it would have disappeared in the south even without the Civil War. That's an interesting question. Slavery had existed for a very long time and slaveowners didn't seem inclined to do away with it. It hasn't been that long -- during my lifetime, that there were still former slaves alive. That's STRANGE. When Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, nearly 100 years before the War, the glaring inconsistency of Jefferson's words -- "All men are created equal" -- with his own existence as a slave owner and a tradition in his family of slave ownership -- was not overlooked. It is just really difficult to make sense of it. How could Jefferson have been so duplicitous? And Washington, as well. It is just a very strange thing. I think it was so deeply rooted that it would have been very hard to get rid of it without the War. Nobody was willing to give on it. Without the Missouri Compromise, I'm not sure the Union would have stayed together.