"At this point in the crisis, the thing that the South most resented was the inalterable fact that the North, like the rest of the modern world, condemned slavery as a fundamental evil. In so doing, abolitionists and their allies impugned the honor of the entire Southern white race, for if slavery was indeed evil, than the South itself was evil, and its echelons of gentlemen were nothing more than moral felons.
— Mar 06, 2025 04:09PM
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