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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Obama and religion
  • Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:43:50 EDT


> Is that for real, James?
> I didn't know that.

Of course it is. The Confederacy knew slavery as an institution was
impractical and had to be transitioned out of. When indentured servitude
became
cheaper and more practical for northern factory work, the slave "property"
was sold
mainly to sugar growers in islands. Most southern states already had laws
against more slaves being brought into the state.

>From the Constitution of the CSA:
"The importation of negroes of the Africanrace from any foreign country other
than the slaveholding States or territories of theUnited States of America,
is hereby forbidden; and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall
effectually prevent the same. Congress shall also have power to prohibit the
introduction of slaves from any State not a member of, or territory not
belonging to,
this Confederacy."

In fact they immediately passed such a law, the very first legislative act,
which provided in part that anyone brought into the Confederacy would not be
deemed to be in the status of slave. Other action made it illegal to take a
person held as slave out of the Confederacy. The result was that any person
in
the Confederacy who was no longer held as slave was automatically a citizen.

Most of what you have been taught about the Confederacy is not true. </HTML>




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