Nicely done.
Our FRiend jeffersondem is hoping to answer the unanswerable question ("how can you defend the Confederacy without defending slavery") by going on offense -- after all, isn't the best defense a good offense?
So on offense, jeffersondem ignores 100% of 3.5 million Confederate slaves and focuses like a laser on any remaining Union slaves.
Yes, jeffersondem's argument is ludicrous, but it's the best he can do with a very poor hand of cards.
His arguments remind me of that very old photograph that showed, for the first time, that there is a point in a horses gallop when all four legs are off the ground. He takes that snapshot and runs around with it proclaiming that horses fly. He surgically removes a moment in time and misrepresents it to bolster his delusion. He completely ignores any evidence contrary to his mythology. He spends most of his time disrespecting Lincoln and the North, but he spends almost no time on positively promoting the South. I would like to ask him to jump forward to Dec 8, 1865 and update us on the status of slavery, North and South, and gives us his explanation of why that came to be. But I won’t waste my time.