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I would propose that the same ratio might apply to slavery. A third were treated badly, a third were ok and a third of the slaves were very happy with their lot in life.

You cannot just pull a number out of you @$$ and assume it as fact. It is much more reasonable to question sources promoted by the victors (Uncle Tom's Cabin, &c.) just as I assume you automatically question NY Times and CNN, if you pay any attention to them at all. I don't. These days I pay much more attention to reports of people who actually saw what happened.

And sometimes you just have to read the tealeaves. The war wasn't about slavery. It might have been for some Southerners, but they weren't the aggressors, Yankee history notwithstanding. Only a small number of Northerners cared about Slavery, That isn't the reason they invaded the South. (Please spare me the nonsense about Sumter. First of all, it was occupied territory, sort of like Fort Ticonderoga. And even if one thinks the Carolinians not at all justified, why did the Yankees attack Virginia and down to Mississippi?)

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