Being a southerner myself, I would like to remind you of the true character of the south immediately proceeding and during the civil war. The south was exceedingly christian and nary a slaveowner missed church. While the civil war was overtly over slavery, in the homes of the southerners it was a war over theological interpretation and doctrine of god's ratification of slavery. When brother fought against brother in Tennessee, it was while screaming over a family bible.
Very little of the southern population owned a slave, slaves were always expensive. The small minority of slaveowners could not have had any political sway even in the deepest south if it hadn't been for the tacit support from god in the bible, and the racist preachers and pastors that took up the slaveowner's cause. The southern baptists split from the baptists for a reason, and that reason was the furor over the morality to own slaves.
Very little of the southern population owned a slave, slaves were always expensive. The small minority of slaveowners could not have had any political sway even in the deepest south if it hadn't been for the tacit support from god in the bible, and the racist preachers and pastors that took up the slaveowner's cause. The southern baptists split from the baptists for a reason, and that reason was the furor over the morality to own slaves.
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