Thank you Alex. That is what I was trying to point out in my answer to a previous post;"This tells me that you think the white slavery that was going on in the north is acceptable? was perhaps the most fatuous comment I had heard in a great while, it was topped by this

The factories of the North were as vile as the slave pens were. which is arguably more fatuous, and moronic into the bargain."
I was simply stating something that was a pervailing attitude of that day and time. In hindsight, this is looked on as "racist crap" but at that time it was not.
I believe that we have indeed progressed to the point where the idea of chattel slavery is abhorent but we cannot judge other times by our standards alone. In order to understand any period of history, we must try to understand the mores of the time, regardless of how we feel about them in the context of modern thought.

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