[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Lynn Ronkainen

>Cantor03>The other aspect of this is I don't get the impression that whatever
>slavery was practiced in the USA North was the basis for the entire
>socioeconomic system there as it had become in the South.

They figured out early on that employees who could be laid off and responsible 
for their own housing and food was a lot cheaper than slaves, who had to be 
taken care of whether business was good or bad.

There's plenty of evidence in the economic history realm that has done the 
statistical work on this, as well as scholars who've proven that on the whole, 
the only ones who consistently made a profit off slavery were cotton brokers in 
New York City as well as British New England and textile factories.

That's one reason that some NYC business people lobbied fror exemption from the 
blockade and the like during the Civil War, and why Confederate leaders tried to 
cut their own deals with England.

It should be noted that the profits that accrued in NYC as opposed to the South 
lives on in the animus in many parts of the South toward New York City.

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie