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Re: 12 days a slave


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Posted by Pair-a-dice farm on January 25, 2015 at 05:59:26 from (162.104.72.64):

In Reply to: 12 days a slave posted by rkh on January 24, 2015 at 19:04:54:

"A lot of people like to claim "state's rights" was the cause and there's some truth in it but the big question is the state's right to do what?"

Much of it was as it is today. The federal government was supposed to be limited as to how much it could interfere in states business. Most of what you've said is basically true according to what is taught in government schools. Lincoln wanted to keep the country together and used slavery as the tool to get support from the northern states for the war. Actually Robert E. Lee was more of an emancipationist than Lincoln.

There was nothing right about slavery but it would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the government had kept it's nose out of it. Slavery was fast becoming too expensive for the south. Mechanization was developing fast and the customers for the south's cotton was putting pressure on them to not use slaves. Irish and Chinese emigrants were cheaper to hire than keep slaves.

If slavery had been allowed to die out on it's own, I believe that blacks would be an extremely strong part of society. Same with the Indians but that is another subject. The south was destroyed and for almost 100 years the poverty level in the south drug the rest of the country down. And that is just the cost of rebuilding property. The cost of lives on both sides is unmeasurable.


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