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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay: [QB] [QUOTE]But I do wonder. In the case of those slaves you mentioned, your point was that the way of life they were forced to live was horrible, but they had to defend it to defend their homes. I wonder, though, that, if given the choice, any of those slaves would choose to have their children live with them in slavery instead of allowing them to live with someone else in freedom.[/QUOTE] Apparently you missed my point. The idea was not to discuss the rightness or wrongness of slavery, rather to point out the fact that there were slaves, members of the Southern social system considered by most whites to be inferior, who took up arms (and in more cases shovels and axes) to protect their home and the cultural environment that they grew up with and lived in. The South was as much their home as it was the slave holders. If one reads about slavery, one can see how terrible the system was and how de-huminizing it was. However, it is important not to miss the fact that for most slave owners, there was a certain familial feeling for slaves. Many owners considered their slaves to be something of an extened family. Sothern slave holders often pointed to the fact that in the nothern industrial system the factory workers were little more than "wage" slaves themselves. Workers to be used and discarded once their usefullness to the factory was over. They would finish the point be saying that slaves were to be protected and cared for in the waning years of their lives, and not thrown into the street. As a result, one does not see mass migrations of blacks Northward till several years into a failed reconstrutcion program. Again it was only at the point where former slaves began to understand that the reconstruction movement had been usurped by white power organizations such as the Klan that they began to move away from their homes. In a very real way, after the American Civil War was over, there was great disappointment among blacks in the South that one of the aims of the war was to promote social justice in the region was given over to a quick national reconciliation. **** And as to one of the reasons why I posted such a long list comparing the other Caribbean Countries, consider that if our young Hero was from, say Haiti, a "free" country (Haiti is listed as a "repulbic" in the <A HREF="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/"TARGET=_BLANK>CIA World Factbook 1999</A>), conservative types would have no problem sending him back to live with his father there. Regardless of the fact that Haiti has higher: birth rate: 32.55 births compared 12.9 infant mortality rate: 97.64 deaths compared to 7.81 and Haiti has lower: Life expectancy: 51.65 years compared to 75.78 lower GDP: $2.6 billion compared to $16.5 billion How about we look at Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write. [b]Cuba: 95.7%[/b] Mexico: 89.6% Guatemala: 55.6% Dominican Republic: 82.1% El Salvador: 71.5% Jamaica: 85% Costa Rica: 94.8% Panama: 90.8% Honduras: 72.7% [b]Haiti: 45%[/b] Nicaragua: 65.7% [/QB][/QUOTE]
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