[DiogenesLamp]

Totally false, but what is true is that Dickens himself hated the North and loved the South.

You should read Dicken's castigation of the Southerners who owned slaves. He is quite vicious to them. You do know that Dickens was himself an abolitionist?

He had no sympathy for slave owners, he abhorred slavery. He was just telling the truth. The Squabble between the North and South was over who was going to collect and spend all that slave produced money.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "You should read Dicken's castigation of the Southerners who owned slaves.
He is quite vicious to them.
You do know that Dickens was himself an abolitionist? "

And yet those who've studied Dickens most have something quite different to say about him:

"Biographer Peter Ackroyd in his 1990 biography of Dickens (the 2nd of four books on Dickens) duly notes Dickens' sympathy for the poor, opposition to child labour, campaigns for sanitation reform, and opposition to capital punishment.
He also asserts that 'In modern terminology Dickens was a ''racist'' of the most egregious kind, a fact that ought to give pause to those who persist in believing that he was necessarily the epitome of all that was decent and benign in the previous century.'[5] "

DiogenesLamp: "He was just telling the truth.
The Squabble between the North and South was over who was going to collect and spend all that slave produced money."

Dickens was just a Brit who got treated very shabbily by the Northerners he visited here, so took out his anger against them by misinterpreting the Civil War in terms that only a self-loathing Northerner like DiogenesLamp could sympathize with.