Re: OT:Thanksgiving

On 29 Nov, 15:41, docdw...@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:

Slavery was 'the immediate cause of the late rupture and present
revolution' and the corner-stone of the Confederacy was 'the great truth
tha the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery - subordination
to the superior race - is his natural and normal condition'.

So asserted Mr Stephens... who was the Vice President of the Confederate
States of America. What would *he* know about the reasoning behind the
Civil War, anyhow?


Doesn't it make you wonder why they did not institutionalise
enslavement of their womenfolk? Oh, they did, it's called marriage.
.

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