Reply #62: Slavery everywhere must be condemned... [View All]

[fujiyama]

That's definetely true. I personally don't have anything against the South or Southerners. When I was down there I was treated with kindness and hospitality.

I'm just annoyed by posts claiming that the Civil War was due to Northern agression. I simply can't agree with that. And I think that the reason the Confederacy is given a lot of blame is because of the fact that they still were insistant upon keeping the institution going, even after much of the north had abolished it. It's the stubborness, and the unwillingness of many to admit this. Also, the post Civil War phase of lynching and Jim Crow, while existant all over the nation, were much more prevelant in the South, and more brutally enforced.

Of course it's difficult to seperate the issue of slavery and that of the forming of the nation itself. After all New York and many northern states were profitting off the institution. The two are inescapable and it's a stain upon the nation as a whole, but as a matter of severity, I still believe the South deserves (rightly) more of the blame.