"Founders, a majority of whom were slaveowners. Or were they the good slaveowners, while their children were the evil slaveowners. Get over yourself, your little hyperbole fools nobody."
Actually, I believe there's a line by Jefferson on slavery, you know the "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and his wrath terrible(or swift, whatever)"
The previous generation had believed slavery a 'necessary evil' and that one day it would be gone. As abolitionist sentiment increased, the slaveowning South became defensive and asserted a positive identity to slaveholding. The idea of the restriction and destruction of the institution was no more in the South. Which happens to be when the sectional conflict really began.
one writer even commented that slavery was the greatest form of "socialism" on earth. the talk of "wage slaves" in the North was also quite common from pro-slavery Southerners.
Not sure what this post is saying.
more to the point, lincoln was willing to protect slavery FOREVER, if the south would remain in the union.
the WBTS had just ONE major cause = the south wanted & WANTS our freedom from the DY elites & our own FREE REPUBLIC.
that was true in 1861 & TODAY.
every other "cause of the war" were irritants and/or minor causes.
free dixie,sw