I do believe that I linked the quote of "bellary":
"Holding other people in bondage wasn't a new concept to Africans, or any other race or society. Africans sacrificed, murdered, and engaged in cannibalism.
Historically, the South gets singled out with the black mark because they were the "buyer." The South was not the seller, shipper, cannibal, or stone age idol worshiper intent on sacrificing to idols."
Maybe he was referring to "Africa" and not the "north." But, I certainly read the quote as the southerners holding the historical baggage, while northern complicity gets whitewashed from the historic narrative. Since, most of the slaves in the USA were domestic, that is to say they were born in the USA not foreign born in Africa, the slave traders came from New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The internal trade was down the P atomic and the Mississippi River. While some slaves were shipped around the Atlantic to the ports in New Orleans, Charleston (more accurate Sullivan's Island), and Mississippi. These were northern traders and southern buyers. The whole idol thing could be taken a bunch of different ways. Are they Catholics who worship stone images of Mother Mary? Are they the European pagans that worshiped at places like Stone Hinge? Is the stone worship of money and real estate like Masons? That one was too vague to address, so I just spoke on the whole northern slave trading thing. Since, most of the southern states didn't become apart of the USA until AFTER the ending of the African foreign slave trade ended. He had to be referring to the domestic slave trade in the USA. Africa has been out of the picture, with respect to US slavery since 1808. And the British ended its African slave trading in 1807. So, just to be historically accurate he couldn't have been speaking of Africa. That's just silly.