Ping - You’ll end up running into this at some point.
Well, thank you for your consideration, but I don't see this topic as very related to what I normally discuss. I think slavery is bad and should have never existed, but I don't think people should pretend that it wasn't normal at one time.
It was legal and normal for "four score and seven years" of this nation's existence. The manner in which it was abolished was not the way it should have been done and the way it was done has opened up another entirely bad can of worms.
Our current abusive Federal leviathan grew right out of that war.