Racial chattel slavery (a variety of servitude that was never endorsed by God in the bible) was embroiled in the interests of the South, but also, if to a lesser degree, in the interests of the North.
God did not look kindly on this, and a worse curse was on Dixie than on the North.
However the Dixie flag could mean a number of things, not just antebellum attitudes about slavery. Because of allergy to some possible usages of a word or a symbol, does not mean we must frown on all such usages.
Many, who would lay blame for the great American war at the feet of the people of the South, invoke the logic that there would not have been war without slavery. They make the case that slavery was at the root of the argument between North and South. Slavery, it is said, was the obvious difference between the two sections; slavery aroused conflicting passions, principles and interests. The cause is variously presented as a moral issue, a political issue, an economic issue, a racial issue, an ideological issue and a highly emotional issue.
Concerning the moral issue, in practical terms, the slavery controversy was conducted, not on the basis of facts and realities, but in terms of symbols, slogans, images, and all the trappings of irresponsible and ill-informed propaganda. The North viewed the entire South through the eyes of Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, Ward Beecher, and Frederick Douglas.
It cannot be said that North and South were divided on racial prejudice. Even though the Republicans protested over the Dred Scott verdict, blacks were still actively prejudiced against in the North. Indeed, it is reported that one of the reasons why Republicans supported abolition was the belief that “even the free Negroes in the north would return to the southern states, their natural habitat within the United States”.
Final proof of Northern hypocrisy on the morality of slavery was offered by the discrimination against the Negro which was practiced, both officially and unofficially, legally, publicly and privately, throughout the northern states.
The Northern abolitionists who did want to eradicate it were a small, distrusted and atypical minority in the north, who manifested radical attempts to incite racial violence.
Are you aware of the northerners who ran the slave trade from Africa? Slaves were captured by blacks and sold to the Arabs who then sold the slaves to northerners who transported them to the Islands. There they offloaded the slaves and picked up rum and sugar to take back up north. The lucky slaves escaped that fate. They were taken to the US.
The north was up to its eyeballs in the slave trade.