Slavery was recognized in the US not because of morality, but due to political expediency. That the North developed a conscience about it doesn’t make them worse than those whose conscience was seared to their inhumanity.
And we are still beating the same dead horse...
Money. Free labor.
That the North developed a conscience about it...
After they brought all the slaves to America in their ships. I noticed their conscience didn't extend to the point of giving back the money they made.
Also it was pretty easy for them to give up their slaves, because they weren't making very much money from them by that point. Slavery was in decline in the South too before Whitney invented the Cotton gin.
Suddenly slaves became very valuable in places that could grow cotton. They remained of little value in Massachusetts. Had they remained valuable, I bet they wouldn't have given them up. People always can be persuaded to do the right thing when it doesn't cost them dearly.
doesn’t make them worse than those whose conscience was seared to their inhumanity.
I dunno, telling me they cared so much about slaves that they were willing to kill their countrymen sounds a lot like a misplaced value system.
Couldn't they have just bought the slaves and set them free?
Killing and taking things sounds like what the Socialists always want to do.
And we are still beating the same dead horse...
Well as I have said, the stink of the horse is still causing problems for us today. Perhaps we shouldn't have killed that horse in the first place?