re: On this date 155 years ago....

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If the south won the war the history books would have been much different. History is written and skewed by the victors. The south would have ended slavery in 10 years.

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I don't believe this for a minute.

Read the Mississippi Declaration of Secession

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Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.

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There's no way the South turns away from this argument in as little as 10 years. After all, less than 10 years before the war, even northern Democrats Douglas and Pierce were willing to accept the expansion of slavery with the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Had the South won, it is much more likely that slavery would have become even more brutal, since slaves would have had a much better guarantee of freedom by crossing a national border at the Ohio River/Mason-Dixon Line. Legally, it would likely have existed at least until the expansion of the industrial revolution into farming that happened with the introduction of tractors from 1915 to 1930.

JMHO.