“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.
I can't speak for you but yeah, Davis sent hundreds of thousands of men to their deaths to defend the institution of slavery.
The same things that actually did replace it, of course, only without the hideous loss of life and the despicable abuses of Reconstruction.
The only reason it was replaced was because the Southern slave owners lost their chattel. They would not have done that voluntarily.