Then you must want to ban "The Republic."  Plato owned slaves.

Do you want to burn "The Koran."  Mohammed owned slaves.

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar owned slaves.  Do you want to project your politically-correct values on those who lived generations before you?

Faulkner, Eudora Welty, F.S. Fitzgerald, Reynolds Price, Mark Twain are your "backwoods cousins?

See reply to nigelnigel regarding slavery.

From a radical Islam perspective then it would be fine to kill you because the strongest probability is that you do not believe that Allah is god and Mohammed is his prophet. 

Isn't your analysis completely devoid of any sympathy for those who were living in 1861 and believed that Dred Scott and the Constitution had given legal sanctity to their way of life; nothing in the Constitution forbade them from seceding once Lincoln broke his oath of office.

Had slavery simply been allowed to die out as it had done in France, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil, things would have been better