I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.