The entire civilized world was one country at a time abolishing slavery starting in the 1830s

Except for the US, Bobert. Do review the South Carolina Nullifiers, the Missouri Compromise debates, the annexation of Texas, Calhoun's record & speeches, the whole Kansas-Nebraska business ----- you're ignoring a half century of run-up to the Civil War. Also, the whole history of the re-enslavement of the Black population post-1877.

As I said previously, I thought you were too smart to be taken in by neo-confederate apologist bullshit.

Guess I was wrong.