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The Big Bad Wolf.
Economics was a part of it.
But slavery was rooted in tradition and the notion that a nation is comprised of people of one religion, one race and one ethnicity.
That's conservatism.
No, that's your skewed, juvenile, misinformed take on conservatism.
Let's not confuse the issue.
What he's saying is slavery was conservative, ergo conservatives support slavery.
It's a logical fallacy called equivocation.
Well no..
I've just been observant.
Conservatives seem to like to call the Civil War, "The War of Northern Aggression".
They also seem to unmoor the slavery issue from the issues attached to the actual war and hold up it was a "State's Right" agenda, almost completely forgetting that the Right the States were fighting for..was the right to own slaves.
In conservative academia today, there are several schools of thought emerging on the history of slavery.
One is that blacks actually promoted their own slavery. Another is that blacks benefitted from slavery. Another is that it was not widespread and would have died off on it's own.
Seriously..what exactly is one suppose to draw from all this?
Especially given the fact that conservatism today, marginalizes the impact of slavery and is doing their very best to reverse any social program met to address the long lasting problems caused by slavery.