[Othniel]

Why is it fantasy? Great Britain banned the slave trade in the 19th century. Lee and other Southern leaders freed their own slaves. The importation of new slaves had stopped, IIRC. Guys like Pickett educated their slaves and weren't the Simon Lagrees that some people think of when the notion of slavery is brought up.

[r9etb]

Why is it fantasy?

Because the southern states perceived slavery to be so vital to their economic interests that they seceded and went to war over the likelihood that it would be abolished.

All that crap from the neo-confeds about it being about something other than slavery is just silly.