[groanup]

Slavery was an economic reality. It was not a moral issue between the North and the South any more than was smoking cigars. The lies are in the new order that the WBTS was "about" and "abolished" slavery. Nothing of the sort. Slavery was worldwide at the time. The only difference, If you read, and believe, D'nish D'souza's book "The End of Racism" is that the black slaves that lived in the US at the time were far better off than the majority of the people in the ENTIRE WORLD. Only now do their descendants want to plead reparations and stamp the guilt on the foreheads of the descendants of slave owners.

[stand watie]

i wouldn't argue with most of that.

everyone would be better off had there been NO African slave trade. it dirtied everyone who touched the "peculiar institution".

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