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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The south has suffered grievously from the institution of slavery.  It was a terrible error.[/quote]

And it also profited greatly.

All by choice. 
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As did the North with their factories that needed cotton.[/quote]

Yes, we ALL owe much to the enslaved people who toiled and died for our country.

Fortunately, the North didn't outlaw abolitionism. 
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Wealthy merchants from Northern states facilitated the trans Atlantic slave trade and imported slaves directly to the North, the South, and the Caribbean islands (google triangular trade). The North still imported slaves to the South and elsewhere after abolition efforts had begun in the North. Without the direct, enthusiastic participation of Northern states and Northern merchants in the buying and selling of humans, before the Revolutionary war and for decades after, the American colonies would not have been profitable. The focus on the Southern plantations is just a convenient distraction from how widespread and systemic slavery was. The entire economy relied on it.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-northern-family-confronts-its-slaveholding-past-88307/[/quote]

Yes, many people across our country - and our economy - profited from enslaving other human beings.

Fortunately, some people in the North were able to look past the money, recognize this was wrong, and force the change.

But the harm was done and continued in other ways. We should do our best today to right our wrongs. [/quote]

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