[DoodleDawg]

I certainly would not regard Churchill as a supporter of slavery.

Nor would I.

Overall, I think I will stick with my estimate of less than one in a hundred.

But recognizing just how much of Southern society drew direct benefit from slavery makes it easier to understand why the south would rebel to defend it.

[Retain Mike]

Under the most restrictive understanding of states’ rights, people living through that history believed no faction could use the federal government to launch a military invasion of the south to impose their agenda. Resisting the northern invasion was the rallying cry needed to create an army.