thorn69

That WAS their right at that time Neal. It was the law of the land during that time period. It's easy for us today to ridicule the people of the past for what they did, or didn't do, but they didn't know any better. They did what they thought they had to do for survival and were just following the pathway that our founding forefathers chose to follow. It was our founding forefathers that had a chance to end slavery before it ever started when this nation began but they chose to keep it because they needed it to build the country up. The people in the South were just following the same concept.

And chances are, if you were born in the South during that time period and had no concept of how the war would have turned out and what life today would be like, you'd be Whistling Dixie and standing up for your State's right to secede from the tyrannical north!

But it's so easy to side with the winning side and belittle the loser when you know all the details and how things turned out. But nobody can really say how life would have turned out if the South had won! It could have ended up better or it could have ended up worse. We'll never know!