(11-05-2018 09:36 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  Honestly, and admittedly with hindsight, I don't think there would be any way to successfully integrate former slaves into southern society or even US society as a whole.

True. There were a handful of small towns/villages, primarily religious in character (and probably consisting of <5% of the overall white population) that were willing to implement a racially-integrated society. But in most places it was just a recipe for bloodshed and chaos.

Quote: It would have probably been a good idea to do a repeat of Liberia, but this time as a US protectorate. Let free blacks make the choice to stay or go, but incentivize going to make it more prevalent.

Agreed. That is sort of what I was suggesting with my idea for central/south Florida earlier in the thread.

Quote:The truth is that wouldn't happen though because northern cotton mills liked slave labor as much as southern landowners. They both figured out that if you rename it and put the onus of feeding, housing, and clothing your family back on the former slave there were additional profits to be made.

A similar thought expressed differently, that I once heard when I lived in Alabama: “You white folks didn’t start killing each other because you cared about us.”