Don't put words in my mouth. I'm not defending the morality of Northerners involved in the slave trade. But that fact that a handful of Northerners made profits from slavery pales in comparison to the fact that the entire Southern economy, culture and political system was based around the maintenance of slavery.
and you don't think that the "abolitionist leaders" (who were "so totally against slavery" on moral grounds) weren't HYPOCRITES???
Anyone who railed against slavery while making money off of it was a hypocrite. But you could probably count on the fingers of one hand people who fell into that category.
also, the northern states outlawed slavery in the north ONLY after it wasn't profitable there. the DAMNyankee elitists of big business,academia, "smart society" & the financial industries have ALWAYS been TWO-FACED.
What factor magically made slavery nonprofitable in the North where it previously had been? And, even if what you say is true, Northerners did outlaw slavery while Southerners didn't, regardles of the reasons for doing so.
face it, Blackacre, you've been sold "a bill of goods" by the PROAGANDA machine out of the NE & you don't even know it.
What propaganda would that be? Can you refute the fact that antebellum Southern culture, economy and politics were all based on slavery?
THE TRUTH is that it was MANY TENS of THOUSANDS of northerners, who were INVESTED IN slavery from the beginning to the end either by OWNING slaves themselves or OWNING slaves through another "party". = they were nothing more or less than HYPOCRITES.
DAMNyankee ELITISTS have forever been HYPOCRITES;it is their NATURE.
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