[ladyjane]

Racial chattel slavery (a variety of servitude that was never endorsed by God in the bible) was embroiled in the interests of the South, but also, if to a lesser degree, in the interests of the North.

Are you aware of the northerners who ran the slave trade from Africa? Slaves were captured by blacks and sold to the Arabs who then sold the slaves to northerners who transported them to the Islands. There they offloaded the slaves and picked up rum and sugar to take back up north. The lucky slaves escaped that fate. They were taken to the US.

The north was up to its eyeballs in the slave trade.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Why would traders go to the north, when the predominant source of them was from the south?

I smell excuse making and hiding behind oh, he was worse than me.