[SoothingDave]

This isn’t the subject to which I refer. What I am speaking of is the ORIGIN of the institution. The BEGINNING of the institution. What I am NOT speaking of is the institution itself. The moral issue of slavery vs death is the root of the compassionate argument. Which is more compassionate slavery or death? That is a question each man must answer for himself.

If that's what you need to tell yourself in order to sleep at night while working all day to justify slavery, don't let me intrude.

Why someone would try to find a moral excuse for slavery is beyond me.

[Non-Sequitur]

Why someone would try to find a moral excuse for slavery is beyond me.

"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." - Abraham Lincoln, 1864

[southernsunshine]

“Why someone would try to find a moral excuse for slavery is beyond me.”

You are putting words in my mouth with this statement. Never a wise point from which to argue. You know not my views on the origins of slavery nor my views on the institution itself.

[Idabilly]

Hmmmmmm. Yankeefied Dave

You did know about slavery in the Colonies?

Damn that Evil George Washington. Right?