Talk:Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South
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By its title, the article is significantly misleading. Proslavery men lived in Northern States, too. The northern voters controlled the political power in the Union by weight of their numbers. Northerners elected proslavery Democrats to governmental offices. Today, the myopic view of slavery is that Southerners supported slavery while Northerners were against it. Someone ought to compose an article titled Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old North. Keep history in balance, do not skew it. GhostofSuperslum 15:31, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
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Few of no "destitute whites" lived in the antebellum South. Many white people deserted the Southern states and moved North into new states where 400 acres of land was available for about $500. Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois attracted thousands of such southerners. For example, Abraham Lincoln moved to Illinois. Some of them brought their slaves North with them. Southerners were not obliged to continue to live in the southern states as "destitute whites." As time passed, more states were created. Many southerners moved west into those states, too, where they purchased land for about one dollar per acre. Oklahoma, Texas, and California became occupied by slaveowners, too. Basically, the reference to "destitute whites" is phantasmic rhetoric. GhostofSuperslum 20:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
