Subject: Re: I Must Have Slept Through History Class
I mean, otherwise how did I miss the “good” side of slavery?

It's part of the Lost Cause mythology. Around 1790ish the South saw slavery as a necessary evil (most of the South). Then De Bow's Review, The Southern Literary Messenger, George Fitzhugh's books and articles (He claimed slavery was a more humane system than the "wage slavery" of the North, arguing it provided for enslaved people from birth to death), religiously - the Curse of Ham argued that slavery was divinely sanctioned, pseudoscientific theories that claimed Black people were biologically inferior and incapable of functioning in a free society, and economics - necessary for the South and the USA. By mid 1830s to 1840s "a necessary evil" was gone.