Georgia's Locker-room

[sufandu]

True, but the slave "business" in the US certainly didn't disappear, what with the effort to expand slavery into the western territories, passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, forcible action to increase the slave population, etc. Besides which, illegal importation of additional slaves took place, with state and local law enforcement often looking the other way.

There is a good reason 1808 is not considered a landmark date--because things were much the same after it as before.

It absolutely didn't end the "business" of slavery, but I don't think that is what he was trying to say.

 

[JRHEETER]

Wow fascinating to see revisionist history take place right here on syracusefan

 

[kcsu]

I was born and raised and up north and had a historian neighbor who will disagree with you. Ken Burns is better off sticking to baseball IMHO. The North narrative is what drives education in southern schools ... as someone who actually has kids in a southern school I can tell you how it is taught here.

And Russia is saving Ukrainians from the Nazis