https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Abolitionism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Abolitionism 'backbone?' The south was poorer than the north and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Abolitionism 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.