[truth_seeker]

“History books leave out a lot of things about the south in order to demonize it.”

If I was trying to list things for Southerners to base regional pride upon, slavery would not be on the list.

[silentreignofheroes]

What would you list...??

[NavyCanDo]

“If I was trying to list things for Southerners to base regional pride upon, slavery would not be on the list.”

True, but the first of the thirteen colonies to Legalize slavery was not in the south. They were Massachusetts, followed by Connecticut. For over a hundred years, slavery was not just a southern thing.

[stand watie]

slavery was a HORROR for the slaves, the slave-owners AND a PRIME source of PROFIT for the HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of northerners who were IN the slave trade from the first day to the last day.

the FACTS are that without the SELF-righteous,SELF-serving, sanctimonious,elitist HYPOCRYTES of the new england area & NY, there would have been NO slavery.

further, there were MANY who were publicly "abolitionists", who were at the same time IN the slave trade. (fwiw, i despise a HYPOCRTYE & a "2-face" worse than even i despise a slaver.)

also, there were just about the SAME percentage of slave-OWNERS (5-6%)in the north as there ever was in dixie. neither side's hands were/are clean.

free dixie,sw