Susan, slavery was, and still is in some regions, a terrible thing, but I hope that you are putting it into the perspective of the time. Britain supported the Confederate States because of the importance of cotton to their mills. Britain outlawed slavery only one lifetime before the United States. Mexico had the peon system which persisted in the southwestern area taken from Mexico, New Mexico Territory not eliminating it until 1868, 3 years after the Civil War. Many Indians were kept in bondage under the system. "Outrage" must be properly directed and the people of the present South must not be condemmed because of the sins of the past, as some of tne people who post here do.