Yeah. It was the Yankee slave traders who sold the slaves to the Southerners, Who made it a states’ rights issue to hold on to enslaving human beings. And oh, yes. Let’s go to relativism. Our slaves were treated much better than your slaves. You may not be stupid, but that argument is about one of the slimey-ist that exists on the planet. There should not have been slavery at all.
Yep, and only 6% of the slaves sold by the Yanks ended up in the South. The rest went elsewhere, but the Yanks sure made a hell of a profit.
And if you think that states rights means slavery that is sad. The principle of states rights goes back to our countries founding. The states delegated limited powers to the federal government. All other rights were left to the states. Thus, states rights.
There should not have been slavery at all.
Then punish Massachusetts, the first state to legalize slavery!
Then there should not have been the slave trade at all! Punish the evil New England states who monopolized the trade and made themselves filthy rich from it!
Dude. So many more blacks died in the middle passage on the slave ships. About one third of any slave ship's cargo of slaves died on the trip. Yet nobody talks of this as much. It still has to be the South that is evil.
never mind that the North only freed their slaves when they had so much white labor that the whites would not tolerate their work to be done by slaves and would have rather killed the slaves as John Adams said? Never mind that Many Northern states then banned blacks from entering. The North, who started the Slave trade, they are the good guys! The South, which in the 1830s had about twice as many abolition societies than the North, are the bad guys. Never mind also that only 6% of white Southerners even owned slaves, and that half of these had 5 or less and often worked side by side in the fields with them. Never mind the facts, the slave trading racist North was good, the South was just eeeeeevil because they had some slaves that the yankee traders sold them!