Obviously slavery is a terrible thing. However, don't act as though the evil southerners were holding the poor slaves down while the saints in the rest of the country wanted them free. The north and south were simply arguing over economics for the most part... Well, the only economics that mattered was maintaining slavery.
And no one, to my knowledge, in this forum has EVER said that the norhereners were saints. Racism was just as rampant up there as in the south and as few wanted blacks to move into their areas and take jobs and what not, so that is a straw man argument. What the northerners WERE adamant about was maintaining the union, which is what they did.
Walt
they maintained the Union and used the south as their slaves. Only unlike before they could use the whites as slaves too. Good thing those days are gone and now the South is the region that holds the cards...