[bk1000]

'Many Northerners would add the caveat that the husband forces the wife to stay in the house so he can keep her from abusing the kids, which she had been doing contunuously. Buying and selling them, even... ;) '


Don't even start. The North was just as guilty in that regard.
Using your analogy, the 'husband', if abusive, is more likely to abuse the kids than the abused 'wife'. The North would have lost greatly in tarifs and agriculture were the South to secceed. The Damn Yankees weren't as noble as you might think, nor the South as evil.

[justshutupandtakeit]

While the Slaverocracy was every bit as Evil as advertised the North was not Noble. It was forced to fight the war against the wishes of the Northern DemocRATS. Those northerns were just as evil as the slavers.

[y2k_free_radical]

THE TRUTH

[jonna]

there is plenty of guilt to go around but the idea that perpetuating slavery wasn't significant is preposterous. The south would have liked to have moved north AND south into the southern hemisphere. the term slavery would have a whole different complection.