On the Fact that (According to Robert W. Fogel's Shocking Book, "Time On the Cross" and Mirrored by the Work Projects Administration's Depression Era Study) Not Only Were Slaves In the American South Treated and Cared for Better than Anywhere Else On Earth, They Were In Most Instances Treated Better than the Free Blacks In Northern States Were

Kind of flies in the face of the propaganda from books like "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and movies like "Twelve Years a Slave" but as it is with virtually every piece of research on the subject, anything short of the William Lloyd Garrison radical abolitionist template (the by-product of that having been seen at the end of the War for Southern Independence with about 1,000,000 slaves dying from disease and/or starvation) will either be ignored or labeled as racist (never mind the fact that the lion's share of enlightened Southerners were opposed to slavery and that the only questions were how and when to end it). What a shame, huh?.........................................................................................................P.S. And, no, this is not a defense of slavery (don't be stupid). I'm merely addressing the one critical question that leftist academics, pandering politicians, and court historians have always seemed to ignore; namely, COMPARED TO WHAT? Yes, slavery was a rotten system by modern standards and sensibilities but in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, it was still a universally accepted and practiced one and, yes, when you compare the slavery that was practiced in North America to the horrid slavery that was practiced in Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and South America, there is zero comparison. Of course the most maddening part of the whole thing is that the institution could have ended without a single drop of blood through gradual emancipation (please read Jim Powell's amazing book, "Greatest Emancipations", to see how the more civilized countries got rid of slavery) but that, I guess, is for another day.