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  1. 04-24-2010, 05:57 #11
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    Default Re: It's Confederate History Month in Dixie

    Those are the arguments that gradual abolitionists/slaveholders used back then, yes. I wouldn't say those are actually valid points, though. In reality, when freed, ex-slaves turned to agriculture, business, and politics, and were moderately successful in all before the big crackdown during "redemption".

    I mean, they didn't take over the government of the South as pictured in "Birth of a Nation", but they didn't exactly sit around and starve to death like the gradualist/pro-slavery crowd claimed would happen.
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