“To me, that’s just like people who deny that Hitler murdered 6 million Jews.”
Yeah, well then you would likely agree with what Marx and Engels wrote about the American South during the Civil War. They hadn’t heard of Hitler of course, but they were as moralistic and eager to condemn as you are.
The British offered emancipation twice during the Revolution, the Dunsmore and the Philipsburg proclamation. So looking back do you side with the Crown over the Hitler-like American patriot slaveowners?
I’m arguing on the side of slavery being a moral wrong. What is it you are arguing?
Also, the Civil War was like most wars, fought by the poor to benefit the rich.
I love my South, but I can’t gee haw with the depth of degradation that slavery wrought and act like it was all about states right.
When the state believes it has the right to do what was done to other human beings, as what was done to slaves, then the state is wrong.