Could be. I don't know. I do know that slavery was legal in the North for quite some time, and it died off probably because owning slaves was not economically efficient rather than because of any moral consideration. (Northerners did not, for the most part, free their slaves but sold them to Southerners.) Owning slaves may very well have been a luxury that wealthy Southerners could afford.
As for "immoral," who decides? Slavery is common in the Bible with rules about how slaves should be treated. Aristotle speaks of slavery's virtues. Some of what we think about slavery now has to do with its eventual association with the War Between the States. Slavery is hardly the worst of human conditions. Just consider my great-grandmother. She died at Auschwitz.
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“As for “immoral,” who decides? Slavery is common in the Bible with rules about how slaves should be treated. Aristotle speaks of slavery’s virtues. Some of what we think about slavery now has to do with its eventual association with the War Between the States. Slavery is hardly the worst of human conditions. Just consider my great-grandmother. She died at Auschwitz.”
I decide. So has most of the world’s population going back to before the civil war. You say “Some of what we think about slavery now has to do with its eventual association with the War Between the States”. No, Britain outlawed even the trafficing in slaves before our civil war and beat the hell out of our slave ships. I can’t understand how you could minimize slavery in light of your great grandmother(hell I just can’t understand it). I just posted to someone else on this thread that the only people that have more of a right to revolution than slaves are those being subjected to genocide. Slavery and genocide. Neither should be used to minimize the other.