School defends slavery booklet

More heart-warming tales from our neighbourly Christian red-state brethren (I'm thinking that the red vs blue thing has crystallized as of this election). An article/a> describing an amusing little pamphlet that was included in an American History high-school curriculum to provide both viewpoints: the north and the south. Excerpts of interest:

Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence.

There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.

Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care.

But many Southern blacks supported the South because of long established bonds of affection and trust that had been forged over generations with their white masters and friends.

Hee hee.