THe fact that some in the North were involved with the slave trade and that black Africans were heavily involved in slavery at the starting point is irrelevant when discussing the rightness or wrongness of slavery in the south. Lincoln holding off on the Emancipation Proclamation was a practical solution that allowed the North to win; had he done that sooner the border stated would have ended up in the COnfederacy. Game over.

At the same time, slavery was just one aspect, only arguably the biggest, of the states’ rights debates that led to the war. Something also generally forgotten, or never known, by many in today’s world.

And the point about African involvement in the slave trade is certainly valid in discussions about slavery being a black/white issue. Something generally ignored by the blacks of today.