re: 154 years ago today.

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Slavery was going to be obsolete inside of 20 years and technology and industrialization was going to make sure of that. Owning slaves and housing and feeding them was a costly expenditure financially and publicly. It was well on its way out. It was getting to a point where only the truly untouchable rich as shite people could afford slaves.

If the south wasn't as agrarian as it was, it would've ended much sooner than that.

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bullshite. The South was trying to spread slavery to the Western territories. There is absolutely zero evidence that slavery was dying out -- in fact, it was expanding.

That's why the slaveholders were so paranoid about the rise of the Republican Party -- with their platform of stopping the spread of slavery, they threatened the very thing the slaveholders prized the most.