Prosperous South
Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of a man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.” — Abraham Lincoln, (July 1, 1854?)
Lincoln first visited the South in 1828, when he and a friend took a flatboat of farm goods down the Mississippi to sell in New Orleans. This trip gave Lincoln his first view of large scale plantation slavery.
