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You mean the male slaves whom the South denied of their manhood for their entire lives. You mean the enslaved women whom the masters and their evil deputies whipped and abused and treated like animals. You mean the children of slaves whom you denied an education.

I suppose, being that you whipped them when they refused to work, that they were afraid that you would whip them when they failed to fight for your unconstitutional, unamerican, unpatriotic rebellion against all that makes this country a model to the world.

You'll have to do better than that. My family were abolitionists. Unless you are referring to me personally, which would be silly.

You have to include those slaves forced to fight ,or, forced to support, the war effort. Sure.

And those who were freed and stayed. And those who worked to free slaves within their parishes. Those who lost family members who tried to change an institution. And those who really didn't care, but grew up with the notion (prevelant as it were) that the state was the ultimate authority, not a greater federation.

I love it when people like you can't get over winning the war. It's good for a laugh.

Was slavery wrong?Absolutely,but freedom,sometimes to the slave was just as bad.The Union Army,the Army of the government at the time was just as bad to the freed slave
Mrs. Louisa Jane Barker, the wife of the Chaplain of the 1st Mass. Heavy
Artillery
writess in 1864 regarding a contraband camp near Ft. Albany, in northern
Virginia:

The camp, referred to as a "village" by Mrs. Barker was ordered to be
cleared out by order of Gen. Augur. "This order was executed so literally
that even a dying child was ordered out of his house---The grandmother who
had taken care of it since its mothers death begged leave to stay until the
child died, but she was refused."

"The men who were absent at work,came home at night to find empty houses,
and their families gone, they knew not whither!--Some of them came to Lieut.
Shepard to enquire for their lost wives and children---In tears and
indignation they protested against a tyranny worse than their past
experiences of slavery---One man said, 'I am going back to my old master---I
never saw hard time till since I called myself a freeman.' "

Elsewhere at Fortress Monroe in the Virginia theatre, Lewis C. Lockwood, a
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts testifies that this kind of abuse was
committed on a widespread extent. In a letter dated Jan 29, 1862 he writes:

"Contrabandism at Fortress Monroe is but another name for one of the worst
forms of practical oppression--government slavery. Old Pharaoh slavery was
government slavery and Uncle Sam's slavery is a counterpart..."

"But most of the slaves are compelled to work for government for a miserable
pittance. Up to town months ago they had worked for nothing but quarters
and rations. Since that time they have been partially supplied with
clothing--costing on an average $4 per man. And in many instances they have
received one or two dollars a month cash for the past town months..." "Yet,
under the direction of Quarter Master Tallmadge, Sergeant Smith has lately
reduced the rations, given out, in Camp Hamilton, to the families of these
laborers and to the disabled, from 500 to 60. And some of the men, not
willing to see if their families suffer, have withdrawn from government
service. And the Sergeant has been putting them in the Guard-house,
whipping and forcing them back into the government gang. In some instances
these slaves have been knocked down senseless with shovels and clubs."

Both the North and the South treated the Negro bad.You cant place the blame on one part of the country.