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Posted By: Bob Pomilla

My point was really, that cockfighters Washington, Jackson and Jefferson were also slaveholders, so their cultural attitudes are not above question.

While attitudes about slavery may have varied, depending on what part of the country one is discussing, the south supported slavery strongly enough, to fight a war to preserve it.

I think the July 1863 Draft Riots, showed a pretty strong and widespread (tens of thousands participated) distaste for emancipation among New York's citizens, also.