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re: 154 years ago today.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 11:49 am to Sentrius
Posted on 7/5/17 at 11:49 am to Sentrius
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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.
While this does not excuse the moral depravity that was chattel slavery in the American South (particularly the excesses in the cotton belt), it is almost certainly true and empirically supportable. It also stands as a stark rebuttal to the "War was the only way" crowd.
Maybe war was the best way or the only "sure" way, but it was not the only way. In hindsight, particularly the bitter Reconstruction era, the long, bloody civil rights struggle and this seemingly unending impasse between the races even to this day, perhaps an organic, less violent resolution, through an erosive process would have been a better way to go.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 2:14 pm to Ace Midnight
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it is almost certainly true and empirically supportable.
Can you show the evidence behind the notion? It is difficult for me to believe that if profit margins fell in agriculture, that labor that was essentially free wouldn't be moved to other industries.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 2:16 pm to Ace Midnight
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Maybe war was the best way or the only "sure" way, but it was not the only way. In hindsight, particularly the bitter Reconstruction era, the long, bloody civil rights struggle and this seemingly unending impasse between the races even to this day, perhaps an organic, less violent resolution, through an erosive process would have been a better way to go.
I'm of the opinion that a war was enshrined in our constitution by the three-fifths compromise and by the desire for slavery to be included in the westward expansion of the country.
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