[DiogenesLamp]

Cause you have to be right in the thick of it to be an expert on slavery, Unlike all those Massachusetts reps and senators that harangued about it during this era. They didn't know anything about slavery because they didn't go down and look.

Really, that's rather silly. What do you need to know other than that people are being compelled to work in grueling conditions against their will?

[SoCal Pubbie]

You stated that Dickens was an impartial observer. I’ve Demi started that he was neither impartial nor, in the case of slavery and general conditions in the South, an observer.