re: How do you feel about Mississippi's "Confederate Heritage Month"?

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I think the whole idea that slaves were held longer in the North is overblown.

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Well, if by "overblown", you mean "accurate", then you're correct.

In Kentucky, for example, slavery did not become technically illegal until December 1865. Lincoln decreed it illegal in the South in 1863, so when areas were occupied by the Union Army, those slaves were typically "freed" (although many were pressed into civilian service for the Union or enlisted).

I'm not a child - slavery was the key catalyst for secession and the conflict. But, it wasn't the only reason. And most confederate privates didn't own any slaves at all.

Slavery was already becoming a bizarre, contradictory borderline cost-ineffective "luxury good" that one also had to have to make cotton production work. It is such a strange, unique time in history, I have no idea why we want to just shove huge sections of it to the side and pretend it didn't happen or wasn't extraordinarily complex in favor of "White people bad."