[stainlessbanner]

Are you going to actually make the old slaveowners' argument that slavery was good for blacks?

Are you going to make that old Yankee elitist argument that the North was morally superior to the South?

[Heyworth]

Are you going to make that old Yankee elitist argument that the North was morally superior to the South?

Not a bit. I already conceded that the north held slaves well into the 19th Century, exploited free labor, and was frequently hypocritical. On the other hand, all the pressure against slavery came from the north. Or are you going to argue that there was a strong abolitionist movement in the south?