[Texaggie79]

D00d, you must be plagiarizin me cause I like said that exact same thing a year or so ago!

The sin wasn't the slavery, it was seeing them as less than human.

[Cleburne]

And I don't think Northerners really saw blacks as fully equals either. The average boy fighting for the Union certainly did not, and it seems that many abolitionists had their own almost maternalistic views of the black race- blacks weren't quite on the level of whites, and thus were to be helped along in light of that "fact". I think that if slavery opponents had given a message against racism it would have been more effective. But then, quarterbacking a hundred and thirty years after the game is awful easy...