BTW - your hypothesis is complete horseschit, but I'm learning to not expect much else from you.
My position on what the Southern states did is well stated. You aren't intellectually, or at this point morally, honest enough to address them on point.
Speaking of logical inconsistencies....
We have already established that the major State's Right the collective South was concerned about was their freedom to practice African slavery.
So much so they wrote and and adopted perverted (in the non-sexual sense) version of the US Constitution specifically to perpetuate it.
Estimates of the enslaved population of the South in 1860 run as high as 4 million. Let us assume two million children.
Most of these children, in part through the various slave codes, were systematically denied even the most rudimentary education.
All of these children were subject to permanent separation from their mothers and sale to strangers at the whim or financial needs of their masters. This also applies to their fathers too but the role of the father was necessarily limited among slaves beginning with the fact that he was powerless to provide any real authority or protection to his family, neither could he prevent sexual access of his wife or daughter by the Master or a family member of the same. No slave "marriage" had any legal standing.
No enslaved woman or girl, since their bodies were the legal possession of their masters, had any real say in whom they could be coerced into sexual relations with. OF COURSE sexual abuse and rape was not uncommon. At least a few cases of the homosexual rape of boys were likewise reported.
No enslaved woman or girl had any real choice with respect to the number of children she could be forced to bear. After the importation of slaves became illegal, slaves became increasingly expensive and the pressure put upon slave women to bear more children increased.
And I haven't even gotten into the horrors of a lifetime of forcible confinement and stolen labor.
People are gonna say this is not what the South was about. Well it was for one out of every three Southerners in 1860. And the South's own Constitution of 1861 confirms that yep, indeed this WAS what the South was about.
To any American living today the Antebellum South would seem absolutely frickin' unreal.
4ager, despite your obvious reasons for not answering, there is no way in Hell that you or anyone else here could see their way through to defending that.
Birdwatcher
