[DiogenesLamp]

Everybody was talking about slavery in the 1860s.

So we are constantly told. I know the people who were trying to gain power from using it as a tool, talked about it constantly.

Remember the liberals talking about "children in cages."

Same kind of phenomena.

You claim to be a cynic, but you fall for every stupid line of slaveowner propaganda.

The economic numbers are more persuasive to me than anything either side says on the matter.

Money talks. Bullsh*t walks.

[FLT-bird]

So we are constantly told. I know the people who were trying to gain power from using it as a tool, talked about it constantly. Remember the liberals talking about "children in cages." Same kind of phenomena.

Bingo. Slavery was used as a wedge issue to separate the Southern States from the Midwestern States. Otherwise both would be aligned in opposing a high protective tariff which was heavily favored by New England which was more industrialized. There simply was no real support for abolition.