Re: [DL] Freeing the Slaves

["Mr. Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed." <sosentinel@adelphia.net>]

At 08:57 AM 8/1/2002, balance@tubas.net wrote:
>I thought -and this may be wrong- that I had heard many slave owners by 
>the Civil War era had decided it was actually cheaper to free the slaves 
>and keep them on as, essentially, a variant on medieval serfs.

         Slave-owners of the period were far too terrified of the revenge 
freed slaves might (inevitably, in their opinion) seek against their former 
masters to have ever considered this. In the period literature, it's their 
main argument against emancipation.

Deo Vindice,
Mr. Christopher L. McGlothlin, M.Ed.

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