No, not at all! they were the black people that other people(especially southern people) made do work and that's why the civil war was fought(well,mainly why).
Because they were black and people were reassest
a necessary evil
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The us had won and the slaves were all released from the hands of EVIL
Enlightened slave owners were willing to manumit their slaves and put an end to this evil.
We are all slaves to our evil inclination to one degree or another. The only emancipation is through Torah (Mishna, Avot 6:2).
Abolitionists, who were people who knew that holding another person as a slave was evil and wrong, and were willing to risk their lives to help runaway slaves.
Slaves got bought in order to perform cheep labor. Many slave holders saw slavery as a "necessary evil," but in order to keep up with mass production, they had to purchase many slaves to do such things as cultivate their crops. Most of the slaves were abused in order to be forced into working.
We kidnapped them and made them our slaves since 1619 to Jamestown and then Abraham Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation that ended our evil ways of slavery. Idiot...
Before the civil war, slavery was known as a necessary evil. Slave owners knew that slavery was not humane. They needed slaves in order to get mass amounts of goods such as cotton for the industries in the north.
Henry may not have been a racist, but he DID own slaves, though he had conflicted feelings about that. He did see slavery as an evil.
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