He wanted to leave the South no right to claim that the North, finding slave labor unremunerative, had sold its negroes to the South and then turned about and by force of arms confiscated what it had unloaded at a profit.
Watterson discusses a historical figure's desire to prevent the South from claiming victimhood in the context of slavery.
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