[Michael.SF.]

There's no real basis for you to claim that people in 1860 didn't recognize slavery as a moral evil.

I made no such claim. I stated that slavery was legal and constitutional. I am well aware that there was a significant number of people opposed to slavery.

[Heyworth]

But you did say that we can't judge Davis by contemporary morality, which would seem to mean, in context, that the 19th Century didn't find slavery to be a moral evil.