The Slavery Blitzkrieg Is About To Commence

The truth is that, had Southerners only been interested in keeping their slaves, their states could have just stayed in the Union. Frank Conner, author of “The South Under Siege 1830-2000” a book I highly recommend, has stated: “The Southern legislators could do their math; thus they knew full well that the only truly-safe way to protect the institution of slavery would be for the Southern states to remain in the Union and simply refuse to ratify any proposed constitutional amendment to emancipate the slaves. For slavery was specifically protected by the Constitution, and that protection could be removed only by an amendment ratified by three-quarters of the states. In 1860 there were 15 slave states and 18 free states. Had the number of slave states remained constant, 27 more free states would have had to be admitted into the Union--for a total of 60 states--before an abolition amendment could be ratified. That was not likely to occur anytime soon.” That would have been 60 states, which we do not even have at this point--regardless of Mr. Obama telling us we now have 57. As far as the slave trade, lots of “good” folks in New England made lots of money from it. Mr. Conner wrote in his book that: “Soon the slave trade had become one of the major factors in the economies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and--to a lesser extent--Connecticut. (New York City got in on the trade peripherally a bit later)…Many, many entrepreneurs in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York earned great fortunes from the slave trade; those served as one of the main foundations of wealth in the Northeast…The New Englanders and New Yorkers engaging in the slave trade were--even in their own time--exceedingly cruel men.” Interesting that we never read about these “gentlemen” in our “history” books. All we read about are the New England abolitionists and their valiant efforts to end slavery. Actually, those efforts started in the South, but you don’t read about that either...more