CVA - or the little general as some call him, is a blind partisan. He’s sort of funny in a primitive way, but you’ll get no reason out of him.
I figured that out...his ‘ID’ on his page is “15th Va. Company C, Patrick Henry Rifles- Men from Hanover County”. This suggests he is really into defending the South ....and is clueless about the impact of slavery on people who were enslaved.
The 15th Va., Company C ...a Confederate Army group....I wonder if he is involved in re-enactments...etc. (If so - maybe he is taking this re-enactment too seriously.) But - out of southern sympathizers - the hatred of Abraham Lincoln is VERY strong - but they seldom have a bad word for the slave masters. It is as bad as leftists who are upset with America’s ‘many sins’ - yet they give Communist Russia and Communist China huge passes.
As I said - 700K dead is huge - but it becomes trivially small compared to the impact of slavery over the centuries before the formation of our country - and the 80+ years after.
I agree with CVA’s idea of not judging people in the 19th century with 21st century morality...but even in the 19th Century - there was a very strong anti-slavery movement as well as many writings on the issue. British Empire ended slavery with the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833....so to say keeping slaves was ‘normal’ in the 19th century is to ignore the societal pressures that were well underway to end this evil institution. And the southerners knew of the pressures to end slavery - and with the election of A.Lincoln, they felt that the nation would end slavery - so they withdrew to PRESERVE slavery.