If the GOP had full control, would slavery be on the table?

[ieoeja]

27. Please remind your teabagger at work that only one state had a viable slave population.

Rhode Island was the only state that kept live slaves. In every other state they were killing their slaves faster than they could reproduce. Apparently, most owners were *not* kind to their slaves.

And if she ever trots out the, "most southerners did not own slaves," remind her to add, "at any given time." My ancestors did not own slaves ... most of the time. But the south had a Norman/Celtic military culture. In a military culture the working class are deemed inferior and required to be subservient to the land owners and warrior class. Southerners largely eschewed working for other people. Therefore, when my ancestors needed to "hire" somebody, they had to buy a slave. When the job was done, they sold the slave.

So while most southerners did not own slaves at any give time, most southerners did own a slave for brief periods during their lifetime.