So the people who inherited their slaves were all nice guys, that didn't use whips, rape, murder, and separation of family to force people to do demanding physical labor?
The civil war happened because everyone involved knew it was wrong, but one side valued the money higher and invented these less than human ideas to justify it to themselves.
Everyone who owned slaves should have had all their wealth generated from slaves confiscated and redistributed to the people who did the work. They should have been tried for their crimes, some slave owners were way worse than others, and if that resulted in you being hanged because you were an awful human that was particularly murdery and rapey, then we would have all been better off.
The civil war happened because everyone involved knew it was wrong, but one side valued the money higher and invented these less than human ideas to justify it to themselves.
Everyone who owned slaves should have had all their wealth generated from slaves confiscated and redistributed to the people who did the work. They should have been tried for their crimes, some slave owners were way worse than others, and if that resulted in you being hanged because you were an awful human that was particularly murdery and rapey, then we would have all been better off.