Slavery was universal before William Wilberforce made moralistic arguments against it and passed a bill in Parliament to abolish it in the British Empire. But his arguments were never as severe as what we've heard in this country, especially in the 1850's when Abolitionists raged against a seemingly immovable political and economic pillar of the South.
The modern use of severe condemnations of the South has been as I posted above, as hate-propaganda against Southern rejection of liberalism and its poisonous ideas, intended to split conservatives just as we've seen on this board.
Reflect, if you will, on the fact that England and Brazil didn't have to kill a million people (600,000 of them on the battlefield) to abolish slavery and substitute some other system. The disparity between their experience and ours will tell you that something else has been at work in America.
I’ve always believed that the hatred of freedom and the desire to impose their own form of slavery has been what liberals-get off on-they are really no different from any other extremist of any stripe, and I don’t have any use for any of them-my ancestors left Spain to get away from a lack of freedom-I’m sure they didn’t mind the snakes, heat, hostile natives, etc as long as they were able to ranch in the wilderness away from the king’s representatives...