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by emmelaich 2353 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Abolitionism

'backbone?' The south was poorer than the north and it's really the slave owners, plantation owners who benefited from slavery. The rest not so much.

You're right though that many (most?) were at least nominally Christian and supported or at least ignored the morality of slavery.