deri, you'd better give me your sources. 

--- Deri James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 April 2008 05:38:16 ken barber
> wrote:
> > states rights started to end with the "civil war."
> > that is really what the war was about. the concept
> > that the feds were a servant to the states and if
> the
> > servant did not serve the states the states could
> fire
> > the feds by come out of the union.
> > slavery? not the real issue. only 4 % of people
> > (including U.S. GRANT) were wealthy enough to own
> > slaves. it is inconcievable that 96 % would fight
> for
> > something that would not benefit them. just goes
> > against human nature. does not compute. but the
> winner
> > gets to write history.
> >   the states have very little rights now.
> 
> The 4% figure you quote is based on the whole of
> "The South" if you "... 
> consider the seven states of the lower South in the
> precise order of their 
> secession from the Union: South Carolina with 48.7
> percent of the white 
> families owning slaves; Mississippi with 48 percent;
> Florida with 36 percent; 
> Alabama with 35.1 percent; Georgia with 38 percent;
> Louisiana with 32.2 
> percent; and Texas with 28.5 percent."
> 
> Very interesting article titled " Historians and the
> extent of slave ownership 
> in the Southern United States. By Otto H. Olsen"
> describing how this over 
> emphasis on the "narrowness" of slave ownership came
> about. (I know you like 
> proper history articles Ken).
> 
>
<http://www.southernhistory.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9406&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0>
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Deri
> 
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