True,and what irks me to no end are the folks who tell you very calmly from their air conditioned condos that slavery would have died off ANYWAY in forty or fifty years so the Civil War need not have even been fought.
Yet the fact that two generations of innocent black people would have had absolutely no civil or human rights during those years of waiting it out is of no concern to them.
And some of the Southrons also will tell you how the slaveownners had the "welfare"of the blacks at heart and"protected"them from violent racist elements.
Sounds very much to me that they would also just love the liberal Democrats who basically say the same thing.We have to protect the blacks from the "mean right wingers"who are crazy enough to think that blacks are quite capable of taking care of THEMSELVES,thank you!
I have never defended slavery. Never had to because the war was not about slavery. I have just made it a point to bring to the forefront the knowledge that all the social problems that plague the South can be placed on Reconstruction and it's fallout.