[PT57A]

"Nope. Slavery was expensive. Machinery was cheaper. Machinery was already starting to take hold. Slavery was doomed as an economic institution."

So what you're saying is that the incentive for ditching slavery was more due to economics rather than a moral incentive of respecting another human being?

I certainly hope the South's moral character isn't judged by this type of "matter of fact" approach to argumentation.

[Lazamataz]

So what you're saying is that the incentive for ditching slavery was more due to economics rather than a moral incentive of respecting another human being?

Pretty much. Most people have all the morals they can afford.