A post spotlighted in Daily Kos claims this about the South & slavery:
Southerners stole people. They robbed people of their freedom. And they did not just rob them of their liberty and their labor, they robbed them of their progeny. They robbed their descendants of a future. This is the heritage of the South. This is the infamous Lost Cause that many today still consider so noble that they have enshrined it into a veritable altar at which we are expected to pay homage. Or at the very least respect.
The last two sentences are, in my opinion, undeniable. But the first five? Those are equally true of the North, and we must never forget it.
Southern planation owners made vast fortunes & lived fabled lives off the back of their slaves, but the people who made the BIG money were slave traders, ship builders, shipping companies, and others up North. AETNA, JP Morgan, NY Life, Fleet Boston - these are just a few of the major corporations with deep roots in the slave trade.
The North didn't take up arms against the United States, but it was far from blameless when it came to slavery.
If we don't acknowledge that slavery was a crucial foundation of the North's economic power, we can never address its evils in the South.
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