[tacticalogic]

But those people had spouses and children who all gained from that person owning the slave.

How many saw all of that had gained and more wiped out by the Civil War, along with those who had never owned slaves?

[DoodleDawg]

How many saw all of that had gained and more wiped out by the Civil War, along with those who had never owned slaves?

I don't see how that is relevant to what the article at the top of this thread is saying. Regardless it's hard to drum up a lot of sympathy for those who started the war and then lost it.