"The sum of money for transport to America back then was quite high, not quite worth 5-10 years of labor, but still significant. So an indentured servant is technically compensated labor."
That is easily the most flawed argument ever. If you kick my ass, drag me to France, and make me work till I've paid off the thousand dollar ticket, I'm still fucked. I'm pretty damn sure they'd have rather been back at home. "Compensation" or not.
The problem is that we have a lot of people here who are ignorant of the South's beliefs back then. They think that they learned everything about the south in 5th grade. I've seen the this thread become replete with inaccuracies. I'm not gonna try and prove them wrong because even FACTs are refuted by them. It's ''cool" to slam on the south as a bunch of red necked, hillbillies, slurring their words and taggin their sister. It's also apparently "cool" to be completely ignorant of the facts.
If there were no slaves, the war still would have been fought. If you take slavery and sovereign rights out of the equation, I say the wrong side one. We'd all be a lot wealthier, safer, and better off generally. The whole damn war was about states rights, which we no longer have.
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2003-02-20, 05:40 PM
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