Let’s Tell the Truth

Much is written about slavery and its aftermaths. A large part of this is frenetically modified history issuing from people both excited and poorly read, a comic-book version apparently intended to support agendas of the impenetrably adolescent Left. A few points:

First, slavery was always bad, frequently hideous, much worse in the Deep South than in Tidewater or New York and consequent to the same desire for cheap labor that now results in importing Mexicans and exporting jobs to China. Any...