To claim that American slavery was in any way justified, disrespects and devalues the people who were enslaved by it.
“If God wills that it (the Civil War) continues until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said ‘the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'” –Abraham Lincoln
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