If you are going to pass judgement on 19th century Americans by using 21st century mores and values then you are going to get a very distorted view of history and come up with very unreasonable conclusions..
If you are going to pass judgement on 19th century Americans by using 21st century mores and values then you are going to get a very distorted view of history and come up with very unreasonable conclusions..
So far I see two standards for both time periods that were guiding people.
1) Bible guidelines of what is right and wrong.
2) “Other” which includes economics, power, politics which are closely related.
There are these “touchstones” that we test what is true and right.
Slavery has existed from the beginning of time and will be there until the end. It is in the Bible and in some ways one can perceive it has condoning but the bigger picture is that all men are equal in opportunity and before the law.
The power/economics/political standards were on both sides of the fences.
So have the mores and values really changed?