[Gianni]

Don't forget that slavery was a Big Government program of Stalinist proportions, abolished by the Republican Party and its northern Democrat allies during the Civil War.

Okay, we keep seeing this, but now here I am, again, asking: How was slavery a big government program?

[nolu chan]

Republicans correctly viewed the Civil War as a battle for supremacy between the slave system and the free market society.
B2B, page 3.

... the free market society we Republicans won the civil War to preserve...
B2B page 18

Millions would fight, hundreds of thousands would die to settle the question of whether our country was a pact among states (the predominant Democrat view) or a perpetual union created by "We, the people of the United States" (the Republican position).
B2B, page 40

[Grand Old Partisan]

The governments of the southern states passed legislation authorizing one-third the population to be chain up and whipped into working for other people, and these governments set up slave patrols and other police state measures to keep slaves oppressed. Nazi and Stalinist and Maoist regimes did much the same thing.