War Between the States about slavery?

[hideyoursheep]

Hardrock, I would have place this on the Front Line but this was an opinion piece. Hope that makes sense.

Your opinions NEVER make sense.

[standin]

Wow. That op- piece does not even have the basic facts. I would venture to say the other opinion writer McCray is responding to contorts the facts also. However, you choose for whatever reason to not link it. Was that due to sloth or another reason, smarmy?

[hambon4lif]

Wow. That op- piece does not even have the basic facts. I would venture to say the other opinion writer McCray is responding to contorts the facts also. However, you choose for whatever reason to not link it. Was that due to sloth or another reason, smarmy?

You may want to dial it down a few notches and make things remedial for dipshit Jack. He's still fumbling through the dictionary for words like 'insipid' and 'innocuous'. If you start throwing words like 'sloth' and 'smarmy' at him, his mis-shaped nazi head will just explode.

You ever see the movie "Scanners"?

[standin]

Actualy, no I have not. I was going to make a joke, then I looked it up. I would need a very compelling reason to sit through Scanners. The cliff notes will do fine until that compelling reason materializes, thanks.

[Seshmeister]

By the start of the war slaves were the biggest asset in the US economy worth more than everything else combined.

Trying to romanticise it as not being about slavery is a fantasy.

[jacksmar]

Couldn't have said it better Sesh.

Slaves built the pyramids in Egypt , the Roman Coliseum, The Inca pyramids and Mayan ruins, the Great Wall of China, and so on but there was nothing romantic about any of the slavery.

[jacksmar]

Sheepfucker wants into the conversation again. I’ll call on you Mr. Helper and put a little blue star on your reply.

[jacksmar]

Hambuffon 4 ever, please tell us the story behind your tattoo. There's always a great and incredibly, soul-stirring deep story about a tattoo. Share yours.

[hambon4lif]

Actually, I wish I did have a forehead like that. Then I'd have a tray to keep my phone and my car keys in so I wouldn't lose them all the fucking time.
Or if I wanted to make people laugh, I'd fill it with random things and tell them "I have alot on my mind".

I wanna hear your stories Jack. I wanna hear the stories behind your 'white power' and swastika tats, or the story of how your mother gave birth to you....rectally.
Either one will suffice.

You don't even have to hurt yourself by using those big 2-syllable words. Just tell me a story, bitch!

[chefcraig]

Slaves built the pyramids in Egypt , the Roman Coliseum, The Inca pyramids and Mayan ruins...

I don't think so. More and more, after watching shows on the History and Discovery channels, I'm starting to believe it was these guys...

[Nitro Express]

Why the civil war happened was always confusing to me. I never could see why the poor people in the south would fight with such passion so the rich minority slave owners could continue to own slaves. A decent slave in the 1850's cost around $1000. Also the president of the confederacy Jefferson Davis was anti slavery as well as some of the key confederate generals.

So what set the south off? The economy and government tariffs. The northern states were manufacturers and the southern states were exporters. Britain was the south's major customer. The south felt they were paying more taxes on their exports than the north was.

Now some northerners felt the south was a horrid, barbaric, backwards slave owning group of people. Many signed up and went to war to get rid of slavery. The average southerner was fighting for states rights and when Lincoln invaded the south with an army is was full on.

So the war was about a lot of things including slavery because many northerners putting their lives on the line thought that abolishing slavery was one of the main things they were fighting for. So the cause really depended on each individual. States rights, slavery, defense against northern aggression. All of that.

[jacksmar]

Could have been this guy and his peeps.

[jacksmar]

"Actually, I wish I did have a forehead like that. Then I'd have a tray to keep my phone and my car keys in so I wouldn't lose them all the fucking time.
Or if I wanted to make people laugh, I'd fill it with random things and tell them "I have alot on my mind"."

That's funny, and I know funny.

My stories are pretty boring hambon4lif. All I can tell is one day I was here and the next day I was back in Cuba. I was really too young to remember.

[Nitro Express]

The US was the China of the 19th century. Europe may have gotten rid of slavery but they wanted sugar and cotton from areas of the world that used slaves to produce it. Nothing has really changed. The world wants all sorts of things produced from slaves today. Most of the stuff in Wal-Mart is produced by slaves. People who work in Chinese factories where if they don't meet their quota they are sold into prostitution and the government goes right along with it. There is a booming world market for sex slaves. The world never got rid of slavery, it just got better at hiding it.

[chefcraig]

My stories are pretty boring hambon4lif. All I can tell is one day I was here and the next day I was back in Cuba. I was really too young to remember.

Whatever happened to your slut hairdresser cousin Marisleysis? Last I heard she was going to pose for Penthouse and open her own salon. And thanks a bunch for introducing the world to that creepy fisherman guy, Donato Butt-pimple.