If you will reread my posts, I've made the colonial, post-colonial and 19th century divides clear for those who take the trouble to read rather than blindly push their own agenda.
And if you will reread (or read for the first time) you will also see that I am and have always been adamant that slavery was an evil practice and a negative influence on ALL that participated in it. All I am saying is that (1) that includes ALL - including those New Englanders who began the American slave trade in the first place; and (2) all those who found themselves in that time and place were not irredeemably evil, and many made efforts to ameliorate the evil.
How you get from there to Lew Rockwell or the Lost Cause, maybe you better look in the mirror.
So New Englanders began the American slave trade, eh?
It must have been as a result of all the demand for slaves to work on tobacco plantations in New England (lol).
And it was really New Englanders and not the Dutch VOC who first sailed into Jametown with their human cargo for trade in 1619, right?
Then they came back and wrote the laws that established slavery in the Virginia in the 1660s, is that it?
And I suppose it was New England who created the Royal African Company to ensure their monopoly on the slave trade in 1672, right?
Seriously, I hope you have more than a college student's term paper and a personal dislike for the north, to support such a specious assertion.