On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:28:29 -0500, Martin Eastburn
wrote:

But you are trying to number away the ill will towards blacks.

No, I'm just pointing out that slaves were a trivial part of the
North's economy, but they were the foundation of virtually the whole
of the South's economy.

The North wasn't fighting to preserve slavery. The South was fighting
to preserve slavery. No slaves, no cotton. No cotton, no exports from
the South. No exports, no economy. The South was totally dependent
upon slave labor. The North was not. As for "ill will," it didn't
enter into the economic equation.


Any slave in the north after Gettysburg should have been freed.

Why? Emancipation was not a reason that the North fought the war. They
fought to preserve the union, which would have been severely weakened,
militarily and economically, without the southern states.

However they didn't abide by the thoughts of a president but
by greed as long as possible.

Nobody has to "abide" by the thoughts of a president. They may have to
abide by his actions, depending on what those actions are.


Being outlawed on paper doesn't mean there are not any slaves.

Of course.


June 'teeth' goes and proves that. The slaves were released
late in some of the south because of news was slow to come.

Baloney.


Remember the phone wasn't invented yet and telegraph lines were
all destroyed. It was back to horseback.

Lee surrendered on April 9th. Every major general in the South
discussed what to do about it by May 19th. Ships at sea didn't learn
until June.

Many of those smart enough to run a telegraph were dead or run
out of town. Those left were carpet baggers from the north
displaced blacks.

You must have some interesting history books, Martin.

--
Ed Huntress



Martin


On 7/9/2015 10:43 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 22:11:56 -0500, Martin Eastburn
wrote:

I'm saying the business men, farmers and such in the north were
forced to free their slaves once the Amendment was approved.

Martin

Right, but that was no more than 7% of the number of slaves in the
South. It was not the economic basis of the North's economy. Most of
the northern states had abolished slavery before the Civil War,
although in some states, like NJ, slavery was "abolished" in 1823, but
actually remained in effect until 1865.