The American Revolution also "perpetuated" slavery. You gonna start crying about how evil our founding fathers were now? You must get very angry every time you look at all those slave-owners on our coins and bills.
> The American Revolution also "perpetuated" slavery.
However, as you are well aware, the revolutionary war was not *about* the right to keep owning slaves. The War Of Southern Aggression, on the other hand, *was* all about slavery.
In the American Declaration of Independence, you'll find no reference to keeping slavery being a cause for rebellion. But if you read the Southern states equivalent ordnances of secession, they make it clear that it was *all* about slavery. The most important difference between the American Constitution and the Southern Constitution was the difference between this:
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
and this:
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.
> You must get very angry every time you look at all those slave-owners on our coins and bills.
As any *rational* person would comprehend... no. There's a difference between having a bad habit, and being willing to murder your fellow man in order to perpetuate that bad habit.