But even for the common Southerner, the prospect of a forced Emancipation of te hordes of slaves in their midst would have been catastrophic.
Turns out that it was a valid concern and we as a nation are still suffering the effects. I am not saying that they should have remained slaves, but that they were ill equipped to be freed, all at once. Much like the the failed experiment with the Indian Reservations.
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Given the worldwide fall in cotton prices in response to increased worldwide production anyway, it is interesting to ponder what the South's post-war fortunes would have been even if they had won.
They would have fared much better than what they did under re-construction. The South is just now getting out of the Democrat voting bloc that resulted from that fiasco. miles
