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I'm a bit bothered here too by what pass for arguments in favor of the South which are really nothing more than downplaying the evils of slavery.

However, to be fair, we are done a great injustice by the NAACP and other liberal watchdog groups which try to overplay their hand. From what I have read, slavery was never really popular in the South and if they could have gotten out of it without devastating their own economy, the vast majority of Southerners would have wanted to do so.

Interestingly, it seems to have been a reaction to northern propaganda about slavery which wrongly portrayed Southerners as cruel beasts that seems to have driven Southerners into a defense of slavery, something they would not have done without the North more or less goading them into it.