“Europe was not going to throw in with Slaveholders- not when the North would ensure they kept up their trade after the war AND they could take the moral high ground”

“I hate that ‘argument,’ because the United States continued to have slavery long after almost all rest of the rest of the civilized world became repulsed by it. That was a reasonable argument in Ancient Greece, 1600s America? Not so much. Most countries also didn’t have to literally fight a war to get people to…