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And how did the south get the slaves to begin with? I will be simple and short... The North sold the South the slaves that the NORTH imported from Africa. No one is innocent of this so if you want to rag on the South constantly you better rag on the North too.

"Even after slavery was outlawed in the North, ships out of New England continued to carry thousands of Africans to the American South. Some 156,000 slaves were brought to the United States in the period 1801-08, almost all of them on ships that sailed from New England ports that had recently outlawed slavery. Rhode Island slavers alone imported an average of 6,400 Africans annually into the U.S. in the years 1805 and 1806. The financial base of New England's antebellum manufacturing boom was money it had made in shipping. And that shipping money was largely acquired directly or indirectly from slavery, whether by importing Africans to the Americas, transporting slave-grown cotton to England, or hauling Pennsylvania wheat and Rhode Island rum to the slave-labor colonies of the Caribbean.

Northerners profited from slavery in many ways, right up to the eve of the Civil War. The decline of slavery in the upper South is well documented, as is the sale of slaves from Virginia and Maryland to the cotton plantations of the Deep South. But someone had to get them there, and the U.S. coastal trade was firmly in Northern hands. William Lloyd Garrison made his first mark as an anti-slavery man by printing attacks on New England merchants who shipped slaves from Baltimore to New Orleans. "

1. Hugh Thomas, “The Slave Trade,” N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1997, p.519.

2. Lorenzo Johnston Greene, “The Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776,” N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1942, p.68-69.

3. ibid., p.26.

4. “Brown University committee examines historical ties to slavery,” Associated Press, The Boston Globe, March 5, 2004

“And how did the south get the slaves to begin with? I will be simple and short... The North sold the South the slaves that the NORTH imported from Africa. No one is innocent of this so if you want to rag on the South constantly you better rag on the North too”

This is something they don’t want to admit, while they sit on their moral pedestal. The entire COUNTRY was guilty for slavery. They have no moral high-ground to stand on on this issue.

Frankly, if Lincoln had had some sort of plan to properly deal with former slaves better than “you’re free, buh bye”, civil relations in this country since then would’ve been far more pleasant. Unfortunately, he didn’t. No one after him did either. The Brits actually handled abolition far better.

(1) Compensate the former owners.
(2) Free the slaves.
(3) Give the former slaves something to start out with.

(Slavery Abolition Act 1833)

Problem effectively over. Much of the tumult all the way to today would have been avoided.