Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by smarquez
Such sore losers still. It all sounds like 400 years of slavery. what's next, reparations?
Slavery, as an institution, was on its way out for other reasons anyway. It was becoming increasingly unpopular, even in the South. The best solution would have been to declare a certain date after which no one could be born into slavery, and continue the ban on importing them (which had already been long in place), while providing incentives for freeing slaves already in captivity.


Slavery was not a good business model, and the invention of the cotton gin would have been the nail that finally ended that 'peculiar institution'. Witness the other nations that ended slavery peacefully without a bloody civil war. Witness slavery being legal in Saudi Arabia until the 1960's (and is still an underground institution there). No, the Civil War was all about Lincoln consolidating unconstitutional power under the hammer of FedGov no matter the literal cost in lives. Good riddance to him, he had it coming when he became a live test model for the effectiveness of a small caliber derringer pistol at close range.

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