So then are you now saying that compensated emancipation was not the solution?
If the government said that it was going to ‘offer’ you a dime on the dollar for every gun you bought or it was going to confiscate them from you with force, would you accept it?
Answer the question please. If the government guaranteed that it would pay you fair market value for all your guns, with the understanding that you could not buy more, would you do it?
“So then are you now saying that compensated emancipation was not the solution?”
I’m saying that compensated emancipation was the only peaceful solution.
“Answer the question please.”
Answer mine. You’ve been going on about how it ‘wasn’t a solution’. The problem wasn’t that it was rejected, the problem is that market compensation of the owners was not even tried. Because that was never the point. The point was to crush the South.
Again, it was tried in the UK and it worked. It meant that those who were involved in the slave trade were not crushed. They were able to ‘cash out’, so to speak. This is why the UK was able to eliminate slavery and avoid a bitterly divided civil war and why black folks in the UK did better than they ever did in America.
“If the government guaranteed that it would pay you fair market value for all your guns, with the understanding that you could not buy more, would you do it?
Me, yes I would do it. Now, answer my question.