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[QUOTE]Originally posted by glassman: [QB] wow, you would love to live in the South. WTF school did you learn this in? Does the professor wear a pointy white hat? You seem to be indicating that the South was somehow suckered into the United States? Thats bogus as hell. The Virginians and the Pennsylvanians were the people that pulled the US together. The North had many more free people that actually voted and the South was who needed the Senate AND the 3/5ths compromise to keep some power. [b]The 3/5ths compromise was a limit on slavery and slave states.[/b] this is unadulterated bs. as i pointed out earlier? Britain had already freed every slave in 1772. The movement was real and gaining steam. what you fail to grasp is that a slaveowner was able to buy 3/5's of an advantag in Congress with every slave. The slave could not vote, but they counted toward the power the slaveowner weilded in Congress. the fact that the South did not grow as well as the North is not due to politics at all. it is due to the fact that the Summers are absolutely brutal without AC the insects are merciless without window screens.. Yellow fever and Malaria were very common. The landowners/slaveowners ran their states like thier own little countries managing to control every element of trade that existed in their locations. They stifled free trade instead of promoting it. People chose not to live there. I have alot of family on both sides going back in VA and NC to the 1700's, NJ and MD in the late 1600's. I have seen receipts for quality land at 40 cents per acre in populated areas of NC in the late 1700's. The price of a feild slave at the time was 400$ (and no that was not in my families receipts, i had to look that up seperatley) So one feild slave was worth 1000 acres of quality farmland.... these were very wealthy people that owned slaves. In other words your average person did not own a slave. It has always been a mystery to me how the Rich southernors convinced all the "regular" dirt farmers to go die for them. My study of it shows that the average Southernor didn't beleive that the Northerners were really "up" for the fight. It was a major misjudgement. BTW? i have many great-greats that fought on the Confederate sdie of the Civil War. And they were not officers. So my curiosity is not simply academic, i am truly curious about my ancestors. have you studied the tax implications of the 3/5ths yet? that's why the North was willing to allow them to have it. The taxes were based on populations. In the Continental congress each state had an equal vote. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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