[starseed]

IMO all slave owners should have been executed. I dont think some people here really understand that these people were inhuman monsters. The way they treated these human beings was absolutely unforgivable. The south may have eventually been pressured to give up slavery, but not until many more lives would have been mangled and destroyed. The South would have had less pressure to stop racism and laws that keep black people from having full equality. If Rosa Parks had not sat in the back of the bus in Confederate Montgomery, would the reaction have been the same? I think it is complete ridiculous BS to think that the lives of black Americans would have improved if the Confederate states had won the right to secede.

The way I see it, the South was fighting for the right to run oppressive societies, and the North was fighting to maintain the idea of a freer and stronger America.