This is a tremendously well expressed post. I am 64. Descended from slave owners. In the family archives I have a bill of sale for a slave named Martha.

Of particular interest/disgust is that it is dated after the end of the war.

In this day and age I am shocked that many people do not know the facts of the war.

The War Between The States, The War Of Northern Agression. Pure bullshit.

It was the war to keep and expand slavery. The war to own other humans. That was the "right" for which the south fought.