[Coleman]

[quote="Short Hand":1653c]I thought the southern economy was laregly dependent on slave labor at the time...... So would that not be a huge factor in the eqaution ?[/quote:1653c]that was only for the southern aristocracy pretty much. I forget the figure, but something like 70% (i think it is higher...i dunno) of southerns didn't own slaves. They did alot of subsistance farming and such.