“By contrast, it gave some southerners freedom from being raped and tortured under color of authority by other southerners.”
Northern States also had slavery so did they rape and torture too, or was it just your hatred of the south that makes you say such stupid things?
You’re more full of poop than a Christmas goose.
Since you hate the South so much why are you so invested in the war that kept those States in the union? You’re just a typical liberal Yankee, a bigot.
No, I don’t hate the south. Yes, slave owners in the north were also cruel. Virginia, at the time that Lee was raping his slaves and selling their mostly white daughters to brothels was part of the US.
Lincoln was elected to limit that bad practice to where it already existed, that is, to ban the expansion of slavery to the western territories. That small half step toward righteousness was so offensive to the slave power that they resorted to treason in support of continuing and expanding slavery. Treason in support of the expansion of slavery is a bad thing. Is that really so hard for you to admit?