So my professor told me Democracies never go to war in class a few days ago

[Zucas]

TheRealMafoo said:

Zucas said:

Deeper political issues that 95% of the normal people didn't give a shit about.  All they gave a shit about was if Black people would be able to walk around near them.  Sure rich people, or plantation owners had other interests, but we know why the masses cared about this and probably still to this day.  Come on don't give these guys who don't know anything about the south anything haha.

There were well over 100,000 free black men in the south, and less then 1% of white men owned slaves. It was not as much about slavery as people today would make it out to be. 10% of all free black men in New Orleans owned slaves (only place where these statistics were kept).

Do you think you would have half the nation today want to go to war, if the US passed a law that just screwed the top 1% richest people in the country?

Not remotely. Not then either.

Also, thousands of black free men fought for the south, and unlike in the north they fought integrated. The north have black regimens. Same was true for working conditions. In the south white and black men worked side by side all the time. In the north, if you hired a black man, white men would quit more times then not.

And lastly, the south was moving to abolish slavery anyway, they were just doing it at a slower pace.

It's really hard to get into the heads of people who lived so long ago, and look at all the factors and pick out what was important to them. If you dropped a man from today into 1855, Slavery would be the most important thing to get rid of. A 25 year old born in 1830 who grew up in those time, would not think like we do.

Wooh you need to check your cultural history on New Orleans, or mainly french cajun Louisiana.  There is quite a difference between them and well every other southerner then and now. 

Well obviously I don't know how they thought then, but neither do you.  So that's a null point.  But if we look at the cirumstances, the history preceding and following it, I think we can get an idea that the majority of the south didn't think to highly of the black population (aside from that creole mix in southern Louisiana which you need to look up).  Hell one of the relatives on  my mother's side is a founding father of this country (Rutlidge... check spelling) and he was kinda the main guy who fought to maintain slavery.  Was quite the bigot.  Of course others owned slaves, but most were ready to acknowledge then that their liberal ideas did not fit with slavery.