> Slavery may have been a great institution in the view of those who 
> profited from it, but theirs is not the only justifiable view of the 
> institution.

Forgive me if I'm picking at what's only the equivalent of a hasty typo, but 
I just have to ask: Their view was justifiable?

(And in case the old "presentism" dodge comes my way for asking that 
question, here's a contingency question: Haven't Andrew Levy and many 
others -- highly constructive and welcomed revisionists, in my view -- shown 
that slaveholders, and others who profited, had plenty of awareness of the 
unjustifiability?)

Steve Corneliussen 

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