Don't Buy the Lies! How the North Profited from Slavery While Smearing the South
Unveiling Northern Hypocrisy
Reflecting on the War era, it becomes starkly apparent that the North’s propagation of the falsehood that the Southern Confederacy sought to reopen the African slave trade was a deliberate and calculated effort to vilify the South and sway public opinion, both domestically and internationally, against the Confederate cause.
This false narrative, rooted in distortion rather than fact, was a strategic maneuver to paint the South as morally reprehensible, thereby justifying Northern aggression and garnering support from abolitionist-leaning audiences in Europe and the North. The historical record, however, dismantles this fabrication with clear evidence of the South’s resolute opposition to the slave trade, revealing a region committed to its existing labor system and constitutional principles, while the North’s accusations served as a smokescreen for its own economic entanglements in the global slave trade.
The Confederacy’s stance against reopening the African slave trade was unequivocal, as articulated by prominent Southern leaders like William L. Yancey, who, in 1861, firmly declared, “I have never advocated the African slave trade. I do not know two public men in the South of any note who have done so.”
His words were backed by tangible evidence: Southern State laws, in place for decades, prohibited the…
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