No other nation on the face of the earth had slave owners willing to launch a terribly bloody war to defend slavery.
Slavery-based agriculture was already on the way out in 1861, and absent the real causes of the War of Northern Aggression, would have ended in a decade or so for economic reasons.
And replaced with what?
“No other nation on the face of the earth had slave owners willing to launch a terribly bloody war to defend slavery.”
Riiiight, 300,000 Confederates died for other men’s right to own slaves, just as I would be happy to die for the Wookie’s right to $500 lobster dinners.
**Slavery-based agriculture was already on the way out in 1861, and absent the real causes of the War of Northern Aggression, would have ended in a decade or so for economic reasons.**
“And replaced with what?”
The same things that actually did replace it, of course, only without the hideous loss of life and the despicable abuses of Reconstruction.