YANKEE slavers sailed to Africa to purchase their human cargoes for cheap rum, cloth and trinkets. YANKEES threw thousands of slaves overboard during the Middle Passage. YANKEES ripped infants from their mothers bosoms and turned a profit on their misery - YANKEES made fortunes on the practice. YANKEES - includeing Lincoln - passed and supported an Amendment guaranteeing slavery to exist forever in hopes of luring the seceded states back. YANKEES still had slaves after the war. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
And who were these Yankee's selling the slaves to?
As for ripping children out of the hands of their mothers, it was the South who had slavery written into their Constitution as a permanent right, naming the Negro specifically.
To hear you guys tell the story, it was the South that was against slavery!