Quote:Who's denying slavery was horrible, immoral, and the south was ramped with racism?


I do see plenty of people ignoring union slave states, openly racist actions and support for the fugitive slave act by Lincoln.

 

My point wasn't that the south was rampant with racism, but rather that if they were so much about state's rights, they wouldn't have supported the fugitive slave act.  Because that's very much a decrease in state's rights.  (and many people do downplay the horriblness of slavery)

 

Quote:I'm not ignoring it, I have no problem telling you the South was beholden to slavery and slavery is immoral and wrong. You say the federal government did something good, that's where I disagree. Lincoln and his war on the south wasn't good, or noble, if anything it represents one of the darkest points in our history. I have no desire to white wash the tyrant like behavior of Lincoln. There was no greater good achieved that justified the death and destruction of the Civil War. Ending slavery is the excuse used to justify some of the most grievous of acts against the constitution in our history, the reality is slavery would've ended here like it did everywhere else with out the Civil War. The Civil War wasn't about the North ending slavery it was about Lincoln holding the union together at all cost.

 

If the Confederates won, how long do you think it'd have been before they ended slavery?

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