Unless you happen to be descended from slaves.
Yeah, the poverty pimps that now rule us are really special, aren't they?
...but in actuality, the power of the Christian faith and the idea that one person might own another person were moving like a Bradley fighting vehicle though nineteenth century thought. Slavery was wrong. It would have disappeared from the South under far friendlier terms had the Confederacy survived.
I'm going to go with the author's thesis on this one, but I know that Illbay didn't even bother reading or thinking about this argument. The bell went 'ding', and Illbay salivated. ;-)