[misterrob]

well aware of the fact that slavery was, at the end, a southern institution. However, those same English Protestants who signed both the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution, some of them were slave owners, FACT. Does seem a tad bit hypocritcal to declare that all men are created equal then whip some for not picking your cotton fast enough, no?

[Post Toasties]

Well, if we had told the slave holder signers from the southern states to free their slaves or take a hike, there wouldn't have been an United States of America, and slavery would have persisted longer, IMO, in the South and may have spread more widely.