re: Washington, DC freed its slaves on this day in 1862. Hooray for Emancipation!

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Who knows what the economy of the south would have been if African slaves never stepped foot in North America.

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This country would look like the Jetsons.

I’d be driving my flying car right now.

So the narrative is that the war was fought to end slavery, but slavery wasn’t ended in the union capital until a little more than a year after the start of the war.

20 people think freeing the slaves was bad. Jesus.

We still ain’t free ouchea

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Any or all of it, $300 per slave would’ve been a massive influx of cash for farmers and would’ve helped tremendously to ease the transition past using slavery to harvest their crops.

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I agree with your statement. Europe did that about a decade before the war started here IIRC.

However, I do not believe slavery was the driving factor for several states (not all of them).

We can look back to several times since the formation of the country with the new England/ Northern states vocally discussed secession because they didn't want to be in the Union with the southern States. 1790s, 1804 (after the Louisiana purchase) 1814 (after the embargo during the 1812 war with Britain).

Nullification crisis of 1832 with South Carolina was the last example of the States not being in harmony. And in all of these examples it came down to MONEY and POWER. Never slavery.

Lincoln said he would collect the taxes. This was a nod to Andrew Jackson and the S.C. nullification crisis. It was at that point the original States seceded. The next wave was due to the heavy handed response by Lincoln.