A lot of the Southern propaganda machine involved covering that up as much as possible, hence lack of free speech in southern states
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Lincoln visited a slave market in his youth and was so viscerally disgusted he hated slavery for the rest of his life
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Even pro-slavery ppl were aware the actual process of buying & selling humans was horrifying & tried to minimize it
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When Uncle Tom's Cabin came out one of the angry rebuttals was to the book having "normal" slaveowners work directly w a slave trader
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Claiming that any "respectable" farmer would've gone through a middleman bc slave traders were disreputable ppl
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They tried to claim slave owners thought of slaves as "family" and that actual buying and selling was minimal
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(Even though buying and selling is intrinsic to the concept of holding humans as property)
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See also how the easiest way to get slavery apologists to flip out was to mention "race-mixing"
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It was a classic move to accuse abolitionists of being in favor of "race-mixing", bc of the weird guilt laden projection thing they had
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Even well into the modern era there were ppl arguing rape of enslaved women was an unimaginable crime that almost never ever happened
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The mountains of evidence from DNA, personal testimony and barely coded language among slave traders notwithstanding
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To the best of my knowledge that deep denial was not thing in Latin America for whatever reason.
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