[LS]

As a professional historian, I can tell you that the record is overwhelming that slaves were not treated well---even the ridiculous study by Fogel and Engerman that said they were fed as well as free white farmers was disproven.

But the essential element is not who treated their slaves well, but that slavery itself was an abomination and any government that continued to support that was itself in danger of being rent asunder. Every civilized country got rid of slavery . . . but the Confederacy went out of its way to SECURE property in slavery.

Moreover, have you ever heard of slave bells? These were absolutely common on any plantation, affixed to slaves so they could not run away. Check the court records of AL, LA, MS, or GA for the recurring issues of violence against slaves, some of which was against the law, but which was almost NEVER prosecuted and/or for which people were never convicted. That one Texas cattleman freed his slaves is nice, but is akin to a Japanese soldier on the "Death March of Bataan" saying, "I gave a GI a drink!"

[stand watie]

and your ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS as a "professional historian" are????

your academic preparation & degree(s) in history are???

inquiring minds want to know.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

while i am NO FAN of the slavers (all too many of them COLLOBORATED with the invading union army/the ENEMY, in return for promises to "protect their human property" in perpetuity!), your blanket statement that the slaves were badly treated is SILLY.

NO intelligent farmer intentionally mistreats his EXPENSIVE livestock, though a FEW fools MAY do so at times.

COMMON SENSE & LOGIC indicate that your position is faulty at BEST & intentionally deceptive at worst. furthermore that position is an example of the REVISIONIST PAP & ARROGANT self-righteous NONSENSE,out of the most extreme, LEFTIST, America-HATING, lunatic-fringe of the "poison ivy league" history departments.

free dixie,sw