The question isn’t “was slavery evil?” The issue was that at that time in history, slaves were a 200 year old inherited institution in the USA and they were legal property that the federal government taxed and profited. Northern industries, banks, and cities became very wealthy because of slavery.The problem was a political one. Southerners were rich and powerful and Northern manufacturing, in particular, was interested in upsetting that power. Along with who would control westward expansion to the Pacific
the terrain in the south west permanently ensured the death of slaveryif the land had been suitable for plantations it could have been another story altogetherslavery survived another 20 years in brazil
Realistically what would have happened if the states simply hadn't seceded? The popular conception is that they jumped before they were pushed, and that Lincoln WOULD have abolished slavery legislatively, but is that actually the case?
>>18505699I'm the only one on earth who's enslaved and the only person who ever was enslaved because you control everyone else as a retarded tranny hivemind that only exists so that you can abuse me through them because you're a retarded sadistic tranny then you make retarded threads like this trying to project your evils onto me because you're a retard.
>>18505741same
>>18505699The missouri compromise was mistaken cause slavery ought to got dealt with at 1820 i blame maine that that happened though i have forgotten the cause to why the free soil state maine were to blame the exact causes as to why or something like that
>>18505699A simple, honest, straight to the point reason the South could not leave the Union. "The Southern Confederacy will not employ our ships or buy our goods. What is our shipping without it? Literally nothing. . . It is very clear that the South gains by this process, and we lose, No, we MUST NOT LET the South go.”~ Union Democrat, Manchester, NH, Feb. 19, 1861
