How could the South have won the Civil War?

Another thing not really mentioned in many American History classes, is the fact that "Negro Slaves" were not pressed into certain tasks! That is, when the citizens of New Orleans, and the surrounding area decided to protect their homes and farmlands from flooding, they did not decide to use very "valuable" African Slaves to do the hard and dirty work to provide their lands with good levees or dykes to prevent flooding!

Instead, in or about 1850 the great land owners in and around New Orleans hired about 50,000 men, of the "white race" who lived in Brooklynn, New York, to perform these great and important tasks, thus a short while later these "dyke makers" or "channel makers" were hired from the great "Unwashed mass of Irish" who were basically starving to death in the New York area! They "voluntarily", came "in mass", to the South and performed the task assigned! That is for really "dirty jobs" it was the new found dummies called "Irish" who were "preferred" to do these important jobs! Until this day, a large part of Eastern New Orleans Parrish is called the "Irish Channel!"

So, why were not African slaves ordered to do this job?

Regards,

Edited by opuslola - 01-Dec-2009 at 19:54