"African slavery is so much the outstanding feature of the South, in the unthinking view of it, that people often forget there had been slaves in all the old colonies. Slaves were auctioned openly in the Market House of Philadelphia; in the shadow of Congregational churches in Rhode Island; in Boston taverns and warehouses; and weekly, sometimes daily, in Merchant's Coffee House of New York. Such Northern heroes of the American Revolution as John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin bought, sold, and owned black people. William Henry Seward, Lincoln's anti-slavery Secretary of State during the Civil War, born in 1801, grew up in Orange County, New York, in a slave-owning family and amid neighbors who owned slaves if they could afford them. The family of Abraham Lincoln himself, when it lived in Pennsylvania in colonial times, owned slaves...."

http://www.slavenorth.com/index.html

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Southern Founding Fathers?

Well, there's a few obscure guys...

James Madison, 4th President and author of the Constitution

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President and author of the Declaration*

George Washington, 1st President and General of the War*

*and evil slave owner




And let's see, who were the great Democratic leaders of the South back when the yellow dogs were blue?

Lester Madox and George Wallace!!!

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Sinsemilla Jones Reviewed by Sinsemilla Jones on . The South November 3, 2005 http://www.fuckthesouth.com/ Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep. And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really? Cause we fucking founded Rating: 5